Some of my folders on my desktop and on my time machine are a lighter blue and won't open.

Some of my recent folders won't open up on my desktop, or off of my time machine.
When I hit info, then it says that all the data is there....
Help.

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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V), then press the space bar.
Now switch to the Finder and and select one of the item(s) that are causing the problem. Drag the item into the Terminal window. More text will be added to what you entered.
Click in the Terminal window to activate it, then press return.
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Version: 3.6.3 - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
OS: Windows XP
== This happened ==
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== June 13, 2010 ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

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