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I use a banking app in my Android 8.1.0. All receipts are saved in /storage/emulated/0/APPNAME.

I can see the APPNAME folder and the receipts on Android if I use an explorer app like Google Files. But if I connect my Android on PC, the folder doesn't show up. I can see the other folders with no problem. Only that specific folder is missing.

What's going on?

(I suspect the devs marked the folder as not accessible through PC)

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It seems to be a problem related to Media Providers. Due to some bugs in implementation of MTP, database of Media Storage app (/data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases/external.db) built from contents of /storage/emulated/0 isn't updated or is delayed or isn't properly communicated with the client as the files change, so MTP shows outdated / incomplete contents.

In order to force database updation, delete the file and run some media scanner app. Non-root users can delete this file by clearing data of Media Storage app.
But be aware, it'll also clear internal.db which will make ringtones unavailable and a new database will be built from /system/media on next reboot.

See this answer for more details.

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Its like bug on computer when connecting to android (mtp) To fix that make a folder then copy the contents of the APPNAME Folder to the folder that you made or just move the whole appname folder to the /internal storage directory.

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