Folders sometimes appear as files in Finder.

I as well as friends of mine have mentioned several times alread that since upgrading to Mavericks in Finder sometimes folders are shown as files. It is not clear under which circumstances this is happening. Any ideas what might be causing and how to fix this?

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I have other editors that allow this feature and it is really nice.
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The hiding of cloaked items in the file list is really a basic thing which can be done through notepad ++ , PSPad and the commercial editor I use from JetBrains. I am not really suprised DW does not have this feature as it never did but I was curious about how it has progressed and it seems to be ok for visual layout design but I personally find it very hard to use for heavy duty coding.
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Folders not appearing in file system

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The share drive is on a windows XP computer that I don't have direct access to normally (Its the attorney's office computer and it is rarely available to work on during the regular business day, which is the only time I have to work). So, I created
a batch file, which is left on the backup drives, to xcopy the files through a symbolically linked directory on the C drive. I did that so I could set the same symbolic directory on all the computers and the script will work regardless of which computer
they are plugged into.
So, my script runs xcopy with the /d /v /y /e flags, plus an exclusion file excluding random things like $RECYCLE.BIN and /RECYCLER/. Because a lot of the computers are XP, robocopy wasn't an option. Regardless, I found that running robocopy
created the same problem anyway.
After copying everything over, the file system stops recognizing the backup directory. My batch file is still there. The exclusion text file is still there. The Backup directory, however, just vanishes. It almost like its hidden,
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are, I can still cd into the directory structure. I have tried restarting the external hardrive. I've tried rebooting the computer. I've tried refreshing the explorer. Nothing works. If I copy the files over, the directory that
I copy them to just stops being recognized... every single time. Not sure if it matters, but I formatted the hard drives to NTFS. So, any ideas?
As a side note... $300 for tech support? Really? What I'm doing is really basic and simple, and I'm not using anything that isn't integral to your software... xcopy. You want me to pay $300 to report and fix bugs that are either in a fundamental
component of your own command line application suite or with the compatibility of your file system? "Lets get them to pay for something that doesn't work and then make them pay us to fix it!" That is blatantly unethical. In any
other industry it wouldn't even come close to being legit. If you paid a plumber to install piping in your house, and then your house flooded right after you turned the water on, is it reasonable to have to pay him again to fix the problems that he caused?
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runs on Linux and other open source software. If we are being told to "fix it yourselves" anyway, then I at least want access to the source code so I can. Seriously... I hate it when I have to come here to correct issues with MS overpriced,
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What is the list of file prefixes that make a file appear first in the finder?

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I was just curious :
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For example, files and folders whose names start with "A" will appear before files whose names start with "B",
but what about a list of characters for files and folders before the letter "A"?
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It looks like a finder bug. To replicate, I surf to any website, I right-click on a jpg image, select "Save Image As" and in the window that pops up I type in the filename "000.jpg", I select the folder Pictures, and click on Save.
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First, the old problem which, though unresolved, is here mostly for background:
A little over a month ago, I posted a question (at http://forums.adobe.com/thread/480423?tstart=0 ).
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I was convinced that Lightroom was renaming the folders (but only in its interface; the original folders had correct names in the finder -- which is the only way they could have been named, since colons are illegal characters and won't be accepted as part of a file name). But I see now that there is some weird thing going on in the Finder itself. Even though I see the correct name on a folder when I search for it, or navigate through the hierarchy, if I click on the file at the end of that hierarchy (the file that Lightroom said it couldn't find) and ask for file info (via Command - I, or other method), the path to that file shows colons where slashes should be, but only in the names of the folders that were so named in Lightroom. All other folders with slashes in their names are listed correctly. So it's a Finder problem. Though this is still a mystery, I have been able to work around the problem. But how is this happening? (Note that I will be reformulating the question and posting it on the Apple discussion groups soon; I don't expect this forum to deal with Apple system issues. Just thought that others here may have had the same problem.)
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In the same collection where I noted the previous problem, I selected an image that I wanted to print. The preview came up with this message:
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But when I right click on the image and select "Show in finder" it opens the correct Finder window with the file in question highlighted. The file, a TIFF, opens normally in Preview or Photoshop.
So why does Lightroom think it's not there? (even though it can show me exactly where it is)
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