Where is my file really?

This started in the last day or two ago. I was, for example, looking for a folder named Mexico vacation, I know I left it on the desk top but couldn’t find it. Spot light said it was on the desk top? I checked again and it was not there. I went back to spot light and opened the folder from within spot light. It opened and there was my files. Wah??? I have had several other folders that don't appear where spot light says there but that open within spot light. If they don't appear where they are supposed to be, where are they? I have run diskwarrior and the complete set of cocktail utilities Help please
Bob

This is no consolation, but I have observed exactly the same thing many times.
This is the problem that advocates of the non-spatial file system, won't face up to.
OSX speaks with forked tongue. It is unreliable, does not update completely, often fails to correctly identify or reveal files and wrongly sums up file size and volume availability.
Spotlight is supposed to replace the Finder for finding files and apps, yet in my experience it can not often find something I have already located and pasted the name back into its search field.
Yet some people want us to rely on this to hold and manage our work!

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