"..." folders on mac.

One of the email attachments I downloaded on my mac had a folder name starting with a "..." . As I understand anything starting with a "..." on mac is automatically hidden on mac. I therefore can neither see nor open that folder in my finder. I need to understand how can I see that folder so that I can rename it. Is there anyway by which I can rename it without actually seeing it?
I even tried copying the parent folder on to a pen drive and then open that folder on a windows machine but even there it did not show up. I am certain that the parent folder contains the hidden folder because of the size of the parent folder.
One of the ways of course is to download my attachment again on a windows machine; but I would not like to do that as it is a very heavy attachment. Any ideas anyone to solve my query.

There is a difference between a period and the Ellipsis (tipple dot glyph)
<https://www.englishforums.com/English/EllipsisTripleGlyphDash/xznhl/post.htm>
A leading period on a file will cause the Finder to not display a file.  And if you attempt to rename a file with a leading period the Finder will refuse to do it.  Of course you can do this very easily from an Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal session if you want.
An Ellipsis is not the same thing at all.  You can add an Ellipsis to a file name via Option-Semicolon.

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