Don’t use Windows 10 to move data on your Android phone
What do your expect when you use Windows Explorer/File Explorer to move, copy, paste, drag and drop files on your Android phone while connected with a USB cable? Well if you have Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 you expect it to just work normally. After all, your Android phone is just another disk drive, right?
But in Windows 10, you should know better by now. According to Jörg Wirtgen of German-language site heise.de:
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There is an error in the USB MTP connection of Android and Windows 10 that leads to data loss if you move files on an Android device: If you connect the Android device to Windows 10 via USB, and then move files inside the device, the files are deleted from their source, but they don't reach the destination. Particularly precarious: The deleted data could not be recovered with any of the usual recovery tools; they disappeared irrevocably.
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So don't move files. Moving is just copying and then deleting the source file anyway and apparently doing it that way works. The situation is sketchy and new info is developing. Be very careful and don't be surprised if that isn't enough to prevent losing files. I would be tempted to make a copy of files you want to operate on and only cut/copy/move the copy. If you lose it you still have the original.
Most scary is the line that the deleted data couldn't be recovered with any of the usual recovery tools. There was no recourse.
Just another cheery bit of news about the operating system that works "just fine!"