I just wanted to slide some pictures of my phone via USB cable on my laptop. Normally, immediately after the connection, the gallery automatically opens and all new images are copied (all without me having to do anything, just automatically), but now nothing happens. I can't access my phone otherwise. It is similar with some (not all) USB sticks. They are clearly connected, still working and the latest drivers are also installed. In the device manager, I've also looked through everything, theoretically it should work. Does anyone know why it could be that I can't access these things anymore? I've looked with the (two) working sticks, if not all drives work, but again there were no problems. I really do not know what I can do.
Look here,
https://www.ionas.com/wissen/usb-geraete-werden-nicht-erkannt/
There are a number of different ways to go through one-off problems with one or more USB devices.
