Files on SMB share vanishing from Finder

Hi,
I got a brand new 13" Macbook Pro Retina running OS X Mavericks and I noticed some very odd behaviour when looking at folders on my fileserver containing solely JPGs.
It is kind of hard to explain, but I have made a video of it so you can see the effect for yourselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smjM7OzTOi0
Basically what happens is when I browse to the folder, all the files just start disappearing from the finder. Requesting info on the folder shows they're still there but I cannot see them anymore. If I mess around with the various view options for the folder for long enough they seem to reappear sometimes.
This is pretty bad. Anyone have an idea on how to fix this or what might cause it? The fileserver is a simple QNAP box that did not have this issue with the previous Macbook I had running 10.8 nor with any other device I own so I doubt the problem is on that end.
Any help would be greately appreciated.

Hi,
same problem here. I upgraded my MacBook Pro Retina to 10.9 yesterday. Files are still there as you can see in a terminal window...
Stefan

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