The advice on this thread helped me but I was unable to see a certain subset of files. I think I have figured out the cause so I will add another piece of advice here.
I was unable to see pictures in a certain date range when I was on vacation no matter what I did. All the other files were visible, just not these; but they were available on the phone, and file manager software on the phone could see them. Just not Windows.
Eventually I realized that those pictures were taken with another simcard in the phone (I bought a simcard for the country where I was at). After I got home and swapped the simcard again, everything worked but I had to reconfirm all the permissions. Evidently, when you change simcard in an Android phone the OS interprets this as a new owner, which is reasonable I guess, and it will not give you access to certain things unless you reconfirm them. I don't know exactly how, but Windows somehow knows which files are stamped with the "other identity" and only those files will be missing from Windows explorer. I saw a couple of other people here whose situations might be caused by the same problem.
So if nothing else works, ask yourself, "were the files I am looking for created with another simcard in the phone"? And if the answer is yes, you might be able to make them come up in Windows again if you replace that simcard in the device then try again.
That is speculation because I didn't actually solve my problem that way. Instead, I used a file navigator app within Android to go to the files; then I highlighted them, and saved them to a cloud drive that was synced with Windows. Once they synced, they were then available to copy directly into my Windows box.
I was unable to see pictures in a certain date range when I was on vacation no matter what I did. All the other files were visible, just not these; but they were available on the phone, and file manager software on the phone could see them. Just not Windows.
Eventually I realized that those pictures were taken with another simcard in the phone (I bought a simcard for the country where I was at). After I got home and swapped the simcard again, everything worked but I had to reconfirm all the permissions. Evidently, when you change simcard in an Android phone the OS interprets this as a new owner, which is reasonable I guess, and it will not give you access to certain things unless you reconfirm them. I don't know exactly how, but Windows somehow knows which files are stamped with the "other identity" and only those files will be missing from Windows explorer. I saw a couple of other people here whose situations might be caused by the same problem.
So if nothing else works, ask yourself, "were the files I am looking for created with another simcard in the phone"? And if the answer is yes, you might be able to make them come up in Windows again if you replace that simcard in the device then try again.
That is speculation because I didn't actually solve my problem that way. Instead, I used a file navigator app within Android to go to the files; then I highlighted them, and saved them to a cloud drive that was synced with Windows. Once they synced, they were then available to copy directly into my Windows box.
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