Finder acting weird

Hi, anyone knows what is wrong with my finder? The problem is a little hard to explain but i recorded a movie, i think it says about everything.
download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/bigxzt

I have now seen this problem come up a number of times. It always seem to involve either something mounted from a Windows server, or a Fat32 external drive. Some people report unmounting and remounting cleared up the name confusion. You could also try relaunching the Finder:
Hold down the Option key and click hold on the Finder icon in the Dock
From the fly out menu select "Relaunch"
This will close all open Finder windows and cause the Desktop to "blink" briefly. I use this occasionally when the Finder is being especially slow about updating an open window. Whether it will help with this problem I don't know, I have not had it myself. If it works it would be quicker than unmounting and remounting the drive.
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Oh great! I had hoped it would go away. I suspect AFP to be the culprit. Since 10.9 defaults to the new SMB2 it might help to explicitly connect via SMB instead.
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Hi Everyone,
I have recently come across a new problem with my macbook pro.
While working with certain applications the finder is acting weird.
Adobe Illustrator - On trying to place a certain document from the desktop onto the art board on my AI file I tried to go the traditional way of placinf it by opening file > clicking on place > (finder pops open). Now, as soon as it came up it took just about 2 seconds for it to disappear. And it has been happening continuosly since then.
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My finder is going beserk! it keep quitting, restarting, quitting, restarting and so on! It causes my computer to switch between applications every 2 seconds, the dock icon fading and restarting desktop items/macintosh HD icon disapearing and flashing up. Help!

afscott
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