I can't see file in folder

I can't see my file in the actual folder after saving it. Weirdly, I can see the file if I open from Pages. Please help.
Message was edited by: Azwan

Has your Mac been running slowly lately?
Is your hard drive nearly full?
OSX can get quirky when it doesn't have lots of hard drive space to write things. It wants a minimum of about 10% of capacity.
There also can be problems with refreshing the contents of windows in List view.
When I move files up and down list view not infrequently they disappear and I have to nudge the system to show them.
Not a nice thing at all, particularly since it caused me to trash a folder full of my tax files once because I thought it was empty. Since then I do a lot of double checking.
P.
PS Might be time to clean up your hard drive by running Disk Utility from your installer DVD.

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Wondering if anyone has a fix for not seeing files
on remote
> server... It's even got my host stumped. I have a fairly
large static site
> which I CAN SEE files via my host's "File Manager" 90
Folders 3090 Files
> 52,336.74KB
>
> But I cannot see files and folders when connected FTP
via IPSwitch or
> Dreamweaver 8.
>
> I have followed IPSwitch's troubleshooting steps for
this issue, with no
> resolve. Emailed them a week ago, still no reply.
>
> I have other sites at the same host (sub-domains of the
site I cannot
> see),
> and thoise subdomain sites files and folders show up
fine. With the
> primary
> site, even though I cannot "see" the files and folders,
I can still ftp to
> and
> from the server (get & put) from DW or IPSwitch...
>

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