Mavericks Finder stops seeing files--you have this problem?

This only started after I moved to Mavericks a couple of weeks ago.
When using Finder on external drives, I will look at a volume or folder and notice that many or all of the files and/or subfolders in it have just diappeared. Sometimes some are still visible--other times, all of them are "gone". This happens suddenly and without notice. I can look at folder one second and the next second look again and find that a lot of stuff is "gone."
The first time this happened I panicked. I thought my data was gone. But (so far at least) it's always still be there, only Finder cannot see them.
This has been happening almost daily and I don't notice any particular "cause." It happens on different drives, including one that is almost brand new. Where it strikes is random--.at any one time, it might happen only in one folder and not another. So some folders will be fine and one or several others will be affected. Once or twice the problem resolved itself and Finder went back to "seeing" everything. Most of the time I have to restart the system, and that doesn't always fix it. Just ejecting and reconnecting the affected volume usually does not work.
I find this problem very nerve-wracking, and it makes it very difficult for me to manage files. Even when everything is probably working perfectly, I have no way of knowing this--it's hard to use Finder when you can't "trust" it.
Have you also had this problem? Are there any solutions?
(This seems to different from the problem of Finder just taking longer than it could to show files and folders. It doesn't matter how long you wait, they just don't show up.)

Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J.  When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder.  Select Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by logging out/in and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it  from, overwriting the newer ones.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.
You might need to redo the View settings after an update.

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