No access to 6's photos (internal storage) when I connect to my laptop

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I like to access my 6's photos directly by plugging into my laptop rather than going through icloud (slow & clumsy). I copy them to my laptop hard drive easily. Now when I connect, My Computer shows > Portable Devices > Apple Iphone, and then a slider showing that my internal storage is nearly full. When I click on that, there is nothing, file is empty? I used to be able to access the photos here. What has changed?