Grayed out folder won't open in finder I've never see this before.



Here's the facts:


It appears to be grayed out in the finder
I can not open it by clicking 
I can move the folder
The permissions are set to 777 (overkill i know)
I can rename the folder with the mv command
I can view the contents of the folder with ls
When I ls (list) the contents of the parent dir I can see it without -a (show hidden files)
The date is set to from before I was born.
I believe this folder to have been a copy of another


I have a folder and I can't open it. It appears to be grayed out in the finder.
I had the same issue with an account folder, which I restored from a backup via rsync. The problem seemed to be the corrupt or missing creation date. After setting it manually the folder was acting normal again. I used the SetFile command from XCode's command line tools. So this should solve the issue:

SetFile -d '12/31/1999 23:59:59' will-not-open