Folder with files shows as empty

Question

Last night I create a new project in Visual Studio 2010, in the folder c:\development\hobby\devices. When I navigate to that folder in a new instance of Windows Explorer, I get the 'This folder is empty.' message in the files pane.

If I then, from within Visual Studio, issue the "Open containing folder command", explorer opens to the folder c:\development\hobby\devices\LoopBack, where loopback is a project under the main folder. If I paste that path into another new instance of explorer, explorer correctly opens c:\development\hobby\devices.

How is this possible?

Answer 1

This is what comes of typing paths instead of selecting them. Some elementary detective work yielded the following interesting results:

C:\>dir dev*.
 Volume in drive C is OS
 Volume Serial Number is E4B4-0563

 Directory of C:\

2010/11/28  09:20 PM    <DIR>          Development
2010/12/01  08:57 PM    <DIR>          Develpment
2010/11/02  06:31 PM    <DIR>          DevTools
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               3 Dir(s)  63 965 368 320 bytes free

Where my disappearing project was in the badly spelt one.

Answer 2

Interesting, something similar happened to me a few weeks ago, a reboot fixed it. But mine was a secondary drive and i assume it had some mounting issues

Answer 3

Obvious question: do you have Explorer set to show hidden files?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Show-hidden-files

(Same procedure works for 7.)

Answer 4

Try to attrib command through the command prompt on the desired folder. I think it will help. you. Here is tutorial how to use the command even it shows the read only attribute so in same way you can remove hidden attribute by typing -h. You can use the command -r -h -s drive:folder path at the same time. Best of luck.