Folders keep disappearing in Finder - they're still there but can't be seen

I have folders that keep disappearing from the finder, however, the folders are still there and I can find them in Spotlight and see them in my third-party browser, PathFinder.
I'll give the example, I have a Volume named Video. It is where I save all my FCP projects and related video files. When I opened the Volume, only about a third of my folders were there. First, I freaked, thought I lost all my work, then I did a spotlight search for one of the specific missing folders.
I searched "Encodes" in spotlight, the folder appeared, I clicked it, it opened in the Finder and when I check the full path info it shows as being located at "/Volumes/Video" - which is where it should be. But if I go to the Video volume in the Finder it is still not visible.
I opened PathFinder and went to the volume and the folder was right where it was supposed to be.
The folder is not hidden and my Finder is set to show invisible files anyway. Any ideas why it wouldn't be there or visible and what I can do?

Hi,
I searched "Encodes" in spotlight, the folder appeared, I clicked it, it opened in the Finder and when I check the full path info it shows as being located at "/Volumes/Video" - which is where it should be. But if I go to the Video volume in the Finder it is still not visible.
Just a guess, but I wonder if you could have a "ghost folder" named Video in the /Volumes folder on your startup disk, with the missing items being stored there instead of actually being on the Video volume.
The /Volumes folder is supposed to contain only the "mount points" for mounted disk volumes, but sometimes an actual folder can mistakenly get created there, possibly as a result of a failed copy operation. If /Volumes contains a folder with the same name as a mountable volume, then the system might be unable to mount the real volume the next time without changing the name of the mount point by adding a number. This changes the filesystem path to the mounted volume, but doesn't change the name of the volume icon displayed on the desktop.
If you Get Info on a folder within Video that you CAN see in Finder, does the volume name in the full path have an extra number on it, something like "/Volumes/Video 1" ? That would be a clue that there is more than one place named "Video".
It's easy to check this by looking directly in /Volumes. First you should eject and then physically disconnect all external drives. /Volumes is a hidden folder, and the usual way of peeking into it is:
Finder>Go menu> Go to Folder
enter /Volumes and click Go
In your case, since your Finder is set to show hidden files, you could just look directly at HD>Volumes.
/Volumes should contain what looks like an alias to the startup volume. Don't touch this, or any other aliases. Do you also see any folders which are NOT aliases, with names similar to the disconnected volume, possibly with added numbers? If there is such a "ghost" folder, is your missing stuff in there?

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