Folder shows as Unix Executable

After transferring some avi files on my external hard drive onto a pc, the folder holding the files now show up as a unix executable (grey icon) when the external drive is plugged into my MacBook. The folder opens fine when i reconnected it onto my PC again... Could you please tell me how to change the folder so that I can open it on my MacBook again? I'm currently using Tiger 10.4.11 and am fairly new to using MacBooks so detailed instructions would be greatly, greatly appreciated

Hi Dave, thank you so much for helping me here When I try to list the files under Movies, nothing shows up. Here is what my Terminal screen is showing:
trang-huynhs-computer:/ Trangy$ ls -al /Volumes/My\ Book/Backup/June
total 4544
drwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 32768 Jun 23 23:24 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 32768 Jun 24 00:21 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 6148 Jun 22 17:19 .DS_Store
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 14037 Jun 3 00:03 .MemeoBackupPlanSettings.plist
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 1420 Jun 23 23:24 ._Movies
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 2097252 Mar 13 1980 Movies
drwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 32768 Jun 3 00:05 Users
trang-huynhs-computer:/ Trangy$ ls -al /Volumes/My\ Book/Backup/June/Movies
-rwxrwxrwx 1 Trangy Trangy 2097252 Mar 13 1980 /Volumes/My Book/Backup/June/Movies
trang-huynhs-computer:/ Trangy$
So it looks like my Mac is not reading anything in the folder at all? Under Info (when I right clicked), the file size is about 2MB... The date for that file is also really weird...?

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