My S7 Gallery photos show in internal storage, but files are empty when plugged into my pc?

[irish_siren32]

I have a Samsung Galaxy S7 with a 32G microSD card, and have had no issues with the Gallery photos until recently. I can see the photos on my phone that are both saved on internal storage and the SD card, but as soon as I plug it into my laptop, all the photo files are empty.

I saw and read the previous posts regarding the .nomedia files, and did come across a .no file once or twice among my Phone files, and deleted it both times, but I still cannot get access to these photos through my pc. I can't even email them to myself, I constantly get a message of "unable to attach file", so I tried to transfer them to my Google Drive, but not all of them are transferring.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this problem? Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thanks bunches.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! When you connect via USB, are you also swiping down the notification panel, tapping the USB icon, then selecting MTP?

 

[irish_siren32]

Yes, and I've also tried the transferring images option and neither option will show the photos when I plug my S7 into my pc. Even when I attempt to email the photos to my Gmail acccount, the photos will not attach to the emails, and some will disappear if I attempt to move them to a new photo file.

 

[B. Diddy]

What's the exact directory pathname where the image files are saved? Is it /DCIM/Camera, or some other directory?