Cannot find device android studio | ADB Shows Device But Studio Can't

Question

ADB Devices successfully recognizing phone

Device not recognized by Android Studio

SDK tools installed

• Launched Android Studio in the morning
• Went away for an hour approx.
• Came back and carried on coding
• Updated IDE to 3.6/3.6.1 (can't remember)
• Device no longer shows up for deployment.

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• USB Debugging enabled.
• Install via USB enabled.
• Platform tools installed.
• Device tried in FTP & PTP.
• Clean uninstalled Android Studio via several terminal rm dir commands.
• Restarted machine & phone
• Tried installing Android Studio 3.4 & 3.5 releases.

Answer 1

I have a quick fix for this problem. Just copy everything from ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/platform-tools to ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools .

I think AS is buggy and the last update moved everything from the ...platform-tools folder to .../platform-tools/platform-tools .