@Kevin_Z Well , at first because of the many photos there were tens of thousands, but after i chose which files to share, even with less than 50 it had problems(it was clearly better than before, but...

@woozle Thank you very much for the sugestion. I deleted it and after removing/reinserting the external storage it recreated id again, slowly but surely reaching a hefty size of 18 Megs- I have many...

@Samh321 The problem is obviously not the HDD/SDD model. It is a router issue. I have an AC2300 and i can access all the actual files in the HDD via IP/mapped network drive in windows. The phone can...