[NOTE: the removable SD Card is NOT in the mix, because I'm not using it for anything these days, and I'm only storing photos on the internal storage. That's
.]I wasn't sure what to name this thread, but I tried...
I am having a very odd thing happen while looking at files (in this case, .jpg photos, but that's irrelevant) on the internal storage of my Maxx HD.
This morning, I decided it was time to move some of the photos from my phone over to my Windows computer (like I always do on a regular basis).
Now, sometimes I use Wifi (when I'm sitting down in the LR watching TV or something), and sometimes I use USB (seems a bit faster when I'm connected directly). This time, I used the USB connection.
At the time that I went to start the process this morning, I had photos on there from this month as well as July and even some still left from June (I waited longer between moves this time around).
My first task was to move the June items. So, I selected them all in Windows Explorer and dragged and dropped them to the local folder (as I have done many times before).
This time though, when it got almost finished, the interface (the Explorer window where I was doing the transfer) sort of froze. The progress bar stopped. Nothing else happened except for the notice in the title bar that let me know it was 'Not Responding...'.
Now, I'm an IT guy.....so, I've obviously seen this kind of thing before, but in the context of dragging and dropping files from an Android to a Windows system, I'm not exactly sure if I really understand all of the things that could go wrong.
Here's the really odd part...
Eventually, when it was still stuck in the same place after taking a shower, I decided to just crash Windows Explorer and disconnect the phone.
I looked on the phone (using 'Files'), and all of the June photos were gone (thinking they probably all successfully transferred and there was just some kind of glitch in Windows Explorer that didn't allow the UI to catch up with that fact or something like that.
However, once I reconnected the phone to the computer, and went in to look at the directory that way (again, from Windows Explorer), the June files showed up.
To verify, I actually opened some of them, and sure enough, they actually opened.
When I disconnected the phone again, and looked in the same directory directly, locally, they are still not showing up.
For further verification, when I got to work this morning, I connected the phone to my work PC, and same thing.....they don't show up locally in 'Files' on the phone, but they do show up in Windows Explorer on the big computer (that just to say, it's not like there is something wrong with indows that's making it show incorrectly).
So, it seems like the files are still on the phone, but the phone's UI just isn't showing them to me in the 'Files' app.
Any idea what's actually going on here?
Any suggestions for what to do next to remedy the situation?
: sorry.....I'm detail-oriented.....I don't know how else to communicate.
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