When the "~" character appears at the end of a file/directory name, the file/directory doesn't appear in thunar by default, but rather becomes a hidden file. Selecting the option to show hidden files will reveal them. Reproduce this via: 1) touch test~ 2) mkdir test~~ 3) open thunar with show hidden files off. CCing rworkman on this since we spoke in IRC chat at #xfce
You spotted the default behavior of Thunar, in fact it is common (for example with emacs) to have backup files with a tilda at the end of the filename. Those backup files are simply hidden, what else did you expect?
I thought the default behavior should be basically the same as the output of an "ls" would be, then hidden files be shown would be like "ls -a". Sorry if I posted a false bug ^^;
I tend to agree, and it seems that Thunar-1.1.x does as well.
Was there any word on this? If not that I'll probably move over to the 1.1.x branch of thunar since it behaves the way I want by not hiding files and directories that end with "~"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 3295 ***