some word files not showing in Finder window

[Vix]

I was emailed about a dozen different Word documents the other day to my
workplace. I saved all these documents onto our fileserver. At work we use
PCs and the server is running SBS2003.

At home last night from my Mac Powerbook which is running OS 10.4.2 and has
Office 2004, I VPNed to the server at work to copy these Word files to my
powerbook so I could use them for something. However 3 of the files weren't
showing in the Finder window. I thought that maybe I'd forgotten to
detached them from my emails. But when I got into work this morning, I
could see the files were on the server from my PC.

I hooked up my powerbook to the network, and still couldn't see them. In
the end I found that either renaming the files from my PC, or moving them to
a different folder and back again, made them show up in the Finder Window.

I know this wasn't a case of Finder just being slow to refresh, because
other bits of file management I did in the same folder showed up, proving
that Finder was refreshing.

Does anyone have any ideas why this could be happening? It's not a huge
problem, but a bit annoying because I really needed to get to these files
last night!
Thanks
V.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

At home last night from my Mac Powerbook which is running OS 10.4.2 and has
Office 2004, I VPNed to the server at work to copy these Word files to my
powerbook so I could use them for something. However 3 of the files weren't
showing in the Finder window.

These files could be corrupted and have a Finder flag set to
"invisible". If you can see them through other computers, it clearly
points towards something like that. What puzzles me is that you can see
them connecting from another Mac (and therefore ready the same
attributes). Is there a chance permissions could be corrupted on the Mac
(or these files)?? Did you repair Permissions (use Disk Utility)
recently ??

Corentin

 

[Vix]

It was the same Mac - I only have one. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

It was the same Mac - I only have one. Sorry if I wasn't clear about that.

OK. I guess you'd see them as well through the Terminal. What about
Permissions ?? Did it correct anything at all ???

Corentin