Subject: bug#10393: 24.0.92; missing files in Dired

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:49:54 -0800

Possibly you have dired-x loaded and typed M-o
by accident.  This invokes dired-omit-mode, which
causes "uninteresting" files to not be displayed.
By default, files starting with .# are uninteresting.

If my guess is right, you can type M-o again
to toggle the flag, and make the .#* files visible again.