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Unexisting files visibile on PC?

I have this problem with my Nexus, and it's been there on my 1st Nexus and on my 2nd (after replacing motherboard, so I suppose it counts as different device )
When I connect N7 to a PC it sees it as media device and I am able to copy files to it. But then I delete some of the files from Ghost Commander on N7 and when I reconnect, it shows the files are still there? Is this normal? I am on non-rooted stock device.
Thanx,
D.

Yeah, it's normal as in "happens all the time, happens to/for everyone".
The thing is that the sucky MTP process doesn't refresh the filesystem content that often and reports cached directory structures to the PC.
Same thing when adding files, they might not show up on MTP right away.
Not exactely sure on how to trigger a refresh on the MTP process, that's why I always reboot before having the PC touch my files.
Also (as you mention Ghost Commander ) I don't use MTP most of the times, I use Ghost Commander's SMB capability to just copy files via WiFi to an from my PC.

HellcatDroid said:
Yeah, it's normal as in "happens all the time, happens to/for everyone".
The thing is that the sucky MTP process doesn't refresh the filesystem content that often and reports cached directory structures to the PC.
Same thing when adding files, they might not show up on MTP right away.
Not exactely sure on how to trigger a refresh on the MTP process, that's why I always reboot before having the PC touch my files.
Also (as you mention Ghost Commander ) I don't use MTP most of the times, I use Ghost Commander's SMB capability to just copy files via WiFi to an from my PC.
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Good to know. The problem of using SMB is when I'm at work that my PC is on other network than Nexus and Dropbox is too slow for huge files Thanx anyway,
D.

Vanilla Nexus 7 MTP Problem Win7 Transfer Issue

I am having an issue backing up files and folders from my Nexus 7 to my Windows 7 PC through the provided USB cable. The problem itself is that when I copy a folder from my Nexus 7 to my harddrive, only the folder will copy but none of the contents. I can still copy individual files from within that folder but not all the time and only some of the time I can copy groups of them. I can copy groups of folders only sometimes also. It seems random which files do not copy and they are not large files but very small only 15kb word documents.
I just got off the phone with Google's support service but no one there knows anything about the issue. The guy I was on the phone with didn't even know what MTP was. He suggested trying troubleshooting steps for fixing Windows XP problems, and told me to use Google Drive. Neither of those were good options for me. He also told me that another tech would tell me the exact same thing. I nearly lost it at that point, but I asked him to escalate the problem anyways and hopefully they will get back to me within a few days.
There is another thread about this same problem but it was posted last year and the title does not match well. That is why I have started a new thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1996385&highlight=windows+usb+transfer
If you also have this problem please respond so we can get some discourse going on the issue. If you know of a fix let me know. I've tied everything you can do from re-installing drivers to stopping all apps on my device. It's a vanilla Nexus 7 so it could be an Android 4.2.1 issue.
Please don't respond and tell me to use Google Drive or other cloud services or some app. I know of all the other routes for transferring files.

Try re-booting your Nexus 7 by turning it off and then back on. The file list that MTP shows on you Windows computer is often out-of-date and does not match the actual files on your tablet. Your Windows computer may show files that have been deleted and may not show files recently added so it gets confused when trying to transfer these ghost files. Re-booting seems to make the MTP file list current.
There may also be a file refresh app in Google Play that does something similar to re-booting.

[Q] Certain files not visible in Windows Explorer

Hi everyone, I'm having an issue where not all files on my Nexus 4 are visible in Windows File Explorer. More specifically, I've been playing an emulated game, and in ES file explorer I can see the game and the save file. I dont always want to play on my phone, but when I plug it into the computer, the save file is not visible, so I have to manually send the save file over via google drive. It also happens with some of my word documents that are stored on the phone. I'll see it on the phone, plug the phone in, and just that one file isnt showing in explorer.
Through looking around it seems like this is a common problem because MTP is stupid. Anybody have suggestions on what to do? I'd like to just be able to access the files straight from my phone so that If I save on the computer with the phone plugged in, itll overwrite the file on the phone. Doesnt seem like editing files like that is a possibility using airdroid and the like.
Thanks for any suggestions!

I don't know what you've tried already so you might have tried these things, but here are a few suggestions.
I don't know if the files you are talking about would be hidden by default in Explorer, but go ahead try showing hidden files. I believe to do that, on your computer, go to Folder Options under Control Panel. On the General tab, check the Show all folders checkbox. Under the View tab, about halfway down there are a few options that start with 'Hide' or 'Hidden'. Pretty much make sure all of those are unchecked. There are also two radio buttons that ask if you want to show hidden files and folders. Make sure it's on the option to Show them.
Try switching between MTP and PTP to connect to the computer. This is doubtful to work, but hey, you never know. To do that, on your phone, go to Settings->Storage->... (menu button)->USB Computer Connection
That's all I have, really. Hopefully one of those helps!

PTP only allows you to see the camera file. And no, they are not hidden files. Some of them are regular word files, .docx and the like. Ive already tried that though

File Transfer To Mac- Asks To Unlock Screen When It's Already Unlocked

Moving large Files to MAC says to unlock screen that's already unlocked?
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to move all the pictures from my S4 to my Mac using android file transfer. (I've done this many times in the past with no problems) However, the last few times I've tried when I click on my gallery folder to select the pictures I want to move it tries to load for a while then a box appears telling me to make sure my phones unlocked and to reconnect my device. (the issue happens before I actually try to move anything. It doesn't even let me open the camera/gallery folders.) The same box appears when I try to move large files, like a podcast for example onto my phone from my computer.
This problem dose not seem to be an issue with smaller files, I have separate gallery folders with only a handful of pictures in each. I can open those. And I'm also able to move songs as long as I do it only a few at a time. The problem seems to only be with large files. Any ideas on what's wrong?
Thanks

Not all files showing when connecting to new windows 10 laptop

So when I connect my Nexus 6P to my new Dell XPS13 and I chose file transfer as the connection option, the device shows up and I can see all the folders but when I open them it's like only select files are there. For example my download folder has a few word files, an xcel file, a few pictures and a small movie file. In the file explorer on my laptop, I only see one word document. So I know it can see the files but where are the rest? When I look on my phone they are still there.
Also my TWRP folder I see a few things but not the backup folder with my backup in it. I have hidden files selected to be shown on my laptop, is there something else I am missing?
EDIT: So this is strange, if I boot to recovery while connected, the drive pops back up and my laptop can see everything just fine, but if I reboot back to just the regular phone, the laptop stops seeing select files? I had an older windows 10 laptop and it didn't have this problem (I've since sold that, so that's not an option.)

Which files in particular? I noticed that sometimes I have to force media scanner to run and reconnect the phone to the computer at times, but the behavior is a bit erratic I havent pin pointed a specific time this occurs.

uodii said:
Which files in particular? I noticed that sometimes I have to force media scanner to run and reconnect the phone to the computer at times, but the behavior is a bit erratic I haven't pin pointed a specific time this occurs.
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It's actually kind of random, but specifically in the TWRP folder there is a folder called BACKUPS that has my backup of my phone, and that whole folder doesn't show up.
Then random stuff like the one word document and one xcel document not showing up, but another word document does show up, it makes no sense to me.

Try going into device manager update device drivers, select location yourself and chose the phone for drivers location. Had to do that to mine when I first got it. It wouldn't let me even copy anything to the phone or create a folder or see contents of folders anytime I clocked on something it would say device disconnected

bump, this is driving me nuts.

This too happens to me. Formatting the phone completely had no effect... I'm going to do more playing around and see what happens.