Images not showing up in media folder in WordPress.
I have a working WordPress website, and was adding images and inserting them to the site and this was not an issue. Recently I updated and enabled my ssl certificates for my site. After which I could not see my images in my media folder, in the WordPress uploads folder. Checked the permissions, all folders had 755 and the files had 644, so that was not the issue. Tried deleting some of the plugins that I recently installed, still did not solve the issue.
Did a couple of searches and read on some sites that it could be related to enabling the hot-linking could create this issue. So, I checked the web links that were allowed. This is when I noticed that the websites permitting the hotlinks did not include my updated site with ssl.
So I disabled the hot-linking and re-enabled the hot-linking. Now all media files are visible. This worked for me, so if you are looking for a solution may be this is something you can attempt trying.
