Use cleartool ls to determine what the state of the checkedout file is.
subdir1@@.main/5 RULE: /main/LATEST
x.c@@.main/CHECKEDOUT from/main/3 RULE: /CHECKEDOUT
y.c@@/main/CHECKEDOUT from /main/1 [checkedout but removed]
The element still exists and is checkedout to this view
However, the view private checkedout file, is missing.
Causing the ‘disappearance’ of the file from unix ls -l