My SD card is recognized, shows available storage, but has files. How do I see the files?

[12gage]

sd card recognized, shows available storage, but no files

I just starting have a problem today that I hope someone can help me fix. I was transferring a file from my PC to my phone when I received a "File Cannot be Transferred" notice, and a hanging copy progress screen. So I clicked cancel, safely removed my phone, and unplugged. Now I have nothing showing on my SD, in Storage Settings it displays the card along with an accurate Storage remaining (4.5 GB out of 64 GB), but the file explorer displays no files. I've tried rebooting, unmounting/remounting my card, and still nothing. I went into recovery and can see files and deleted the partially transferred file, when I reboot, the SD card loads, Folder Mount runs and successfully mounts to my SD, I can even go to the file explorer and see files briefly, then within a minute or two.....poof everything disappears. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: sd card recognized, shows available storage, but no files

Welcome to Android Central! I assume you were trying to copy that file from your PC to the phone's microSD card, correct? The card may have become corrupted by that glitch (or the corruption occurred before, which caused the problem with the file copy attempt). Unmount the card, remove it, and insert it into your computer. Use the computer's file browser to explore the card--can you see the data? If so, back it up now. Then either reformat the card and copy the data back to it, or run chkdsk to look for and repair bad sectors: http://forums.androidcentral.com/am...guide-using-chkdsk-fix-corrupted-sd-card.html