HELP! Hierarchy problems: endless circular folders.

I have a folder (Total outflow 09.1.xls) which, as I remember, was originally a single Excel file containing only my 2009 purchases/expenses workbook. It is contained within the Folder," 09 Financials" along with 9 files and 1 other folder. (11 items total). When I try to open it (Total outflow 09.1.xls) I find that it contains the entire contents of the parent folder (09 Financials) again. I can continuously cycle through opening the nested folders one after the other, ad infinitum. But I can never actually get to the data that was in the original Excel file.
Any idea as to how did this happen? Do I have any hope of getting back the data that was in that original Excel workbook? How?

battmt wrote:
I have a folder (Total outflow 09.1.xls) which, as I remember, was originally a single Excel file containing only my 2009 purchases/expenses workbook. It is contained within the Folder," 09 Financials" along with 9 files and 1 other folder. (11 items total). When I try to open it (Total outflow 09.1.xls) I find that it contains the entire contents of the parent folder (09 Financials) again. I can continuously cycle through opening the nested folders one after the other, ad infinitum. But I can never actually get to the data that was in the original Excel file.
Any idea as to how did this happen? Do I have any hope of getting back the data that was in that original Excel workbook? How?
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It sounds like the disk management data has become scrambled. I'd try using Disk Utility to run a "Repair Disk" operation. This will require that you boot from another device, perhaps from the disc containing your latest version of OS X or the system disc that came with your Mac. You could run a "Verify Disk" operation from Disk Utility while booted from your normal boot drive to check whether Disk Utility recognizes a problem.
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