Grey folder not usable

After installation of mavericks i have copied a folder from an mountain lion system and the folder is not accessible
the owner and acces are the same than in 10.8.5, the size of the folder is correct (big) but it is impossible to enter in the folder!!!
what are the commands other than chown, chmon, chflags that i can use to access to my folders in grey?

Thanks for your explanation, but i dont agree. The names are differents and the finder makes a bug because it must not think folders whith differents names are the same.
The proof is that the terminal understand that two folders whith differents names are identicals.
It is also a bug not to say that there is a problem. It just put the name in grey and block the access whith overstep the unix access. there is a read acces in the folder and i cannot read it, this is a nonsens.
If it was correct it should have send an error when creating the folder.
In fact i just make a copy from a folder under 10.8.5 to the new one under 10.9.2 whithout none error during the copy.
Anyway, it must have a finder command to solve the problem. They have (at last) put an extension to make the Library folder visible. They have to do the same for the others invisibles folders.

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