ADB No Devices Found

I am attempting to install an Android app on my brand new Nexus 10. I have a .apk file. I have downloaded the Android SDK, installed “Android SDK Tools”, “Android SDK Platform-tools”, and Google USB Driver. I have checked the setting on my Nexus 10 for “Unknown Sources”.

When I run “adb devices” from the command terminal, it doesn’t list any devices. I attempted to follow this recommendation, because it was identical to a suggestion I had previously found here on Stack Overflow. After following those steps, “adb devices” still returns an empty list and to make it worse, when I connect my Nexus 10 to my PC, Windows doesn’t show any folders within the device.

I have undone the steps in that link, along with everything else I have done so far, as well as uninstalling my Nexus 10 from Device Manager and reinstalling it, but I am still not seeing any folders in the device.

Is there anything I am missing to get my device to show up in ADB devices?

What can I do to get Windows to see the folders within the device?

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Windows 8 wouldn’t recognize my Nexus 10 device. Fixed by Setting the transfer mode to Camera (PTP) through the settings dialogue on the device.

Settings > Storage > Menu > USB Computer connection to “Camera (PTP)”

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