Why is a folder ghosted on my 256GB usb thumb drive?

[blackxacto]

I partitioned a 256GB thumb drive. 13GB & the remaining. One stores Mojave installation, the other copy of my Music folder. When I finished copying the Music folder which is only 90GB, it appears untouchable or ghosted. Not sure what is correct term. Why did this happen?

 

[joevt]

The folder appears to be invisible?

Some files "invisible" on Mac but not Windows?

Press Command-Shift-Period to show/hide invisible files in macOS? You should be able to use the ls -lA command to list invisible files in the current directory. Maybe the files have the invisible flag set in their Finder Info? You can use the xattr command to view the Finder Info flags (change...

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Does it contain your iTunes library?

 

[blackxacto]

The folder appears to be invisible?

Some files "invisible" on Mac but not Windows?

Press Command-Shift-Period to show/hide invisible files in macOS? You should be able to use the ls -lA command to list invisible files in the current directory. Maybe the files have the invisible flag set in their Finder Info? You can use the xattr command to view the Finder Info flags (change...

forums.macrumors.com

Does it contain your iTunes library?

Thank you for your help. I will archive your solution. I just erased the partition and reloaded the music files. They appear this time. Have no idea why not the last time.

 

[MacCheetah3]

I don’t know what your problem was, however, folders and files appear that way during a copy and then lose the transparency when the copy is completed. Therefore, my guess is the copy process failed but Finder mistakenly didn’t remove the partial progress as it should. Perhaps even a directory corruption occurred, hence why your reformat would have corrected it. In the future — if such a behavior happens again — I suggest running First Aid in Disk Utility on the affected drive.

 

[blackxacto]

I don’t know what your problem was, however, folders and files appear that way during a copy and then lose the transparency when the copy is completed. Therefore, my guess is the copy process failed but Finder mistakenly didn’t remove the partial progress as it should. Perhaps even a directory corruption occurred, hence why your reformat would have corrected it. In the future — if such a behavior happens again — I suggest running First Aid in Disk Utility on the affected drive.

I did. Didn’t change the situation.

 

[MacCheetah3]

Fair enough. Hopefully, a very rare fluke.