If you encounter the “USB files not showing but space used” issue, don’t worry and check out this post to find how to solve the USB data not showing in PC issue.
I saved some files in my USB but when I explore my USB the files are not appear. This could be caused by various factors such as accidental deletion, hidden files, wrong file system, virus invasion, etc.
It is common for USB drive or other external hard drive files to sometimes not show up in the PC. Have you ever encountered the same issue? Do you know how to solve the issue: USB drive not showing files and folders? Simply put, USB Drive is visible but content is not! Why? I could see my USB drive in File Explorer, but I could not see my files stored on this drive.
None /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 I'd already checked the output of fuser -vm / lsof +D, mount and cat /proc/mounts, checked whether some old nfs-kernel-server was running, turned off quotas, attempted (but failed) a umount -f and all but resigned myself to abandoning 924 days' uptime before finally checking the output of losetup and finding two stale configured-but-not-mounted loopbacks: parsley:/mnt# cat /proc/mounts To add to BruceCran's comment above, the cause for my manifestation of this problem just now was a stale loopback mount.