Where's my Applications?

[csonni]

Just booted over to my second internal drive on my G5 to do some troubleshooting with possibly bad video drivers. Anyways, I may want to use this Barracuda as my main drive now. In wanting to drag over certain applications, I cannot locate my Applications folder on my other drive. I believe it was showing as soon as I opened the hard drive on my Desktop. It's not there. Any ideas? I can't find it anywhere.
Update:  Here's the weird thing. I booted back into my drive and I can find all my Apps and Utility folder in my sidebar, but not on the drive. I click Get Info and the "where" states "/Applications." The forward slash- what does that tell me? I don't ever remember moving the Apps folder. There would be trouble with that. I do a search for Applications and the folder doesn't show up.
I just did a search for Utilities, up came 2 folders, one on each drive. I scrolled the window over and found the Applications folder on the root of my drive. I closed the window, double clicked my drive and guess what? No Applications folder. What gives?

[dakota]

I have had the same problem twice, and posted about it a couple of months ago.  The folder would show upin the sidebar, but would be absent on my HD.  A "find" would tell me it was there, but it wasn't.  Turns out it was invisible.  I used File Buddy to turn it from invisible to visible both times.  The first time it disappeared again after a while. Since I did it again a few weeks ago, it is still on my HD.  Someone on TS had sent me the following link:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?m...44&#3003944

I never followed the advice above, since File Buddy worked.  If it disappears again, I will try the advice given!  This only started happening after the last Apple system update.

[csonni]

That did it!  Thanks.

[Xairbusdriver]

Can't help with your other questions, which seem solved, anyway. But the '"/Applications." The forward slash- what does that tell me?' part is easier. "/..." ( with nothing on the left side of the "/" is the shorthand way of saying "the root directory" of whatever name. Thus, "/Applications" is the Applications directory at the root of that drive. If there had been a tilde in front of it—"~/..." it would be referring to the that users directory, the one that no other ( non-admin ) user can see/use.