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What's the point of reformatting an exFat card to fat32?
Why are there so many recommendations from sellers to reformat a 64 GB card to fat 32? All my cams work with the manufacturer's exFAT choice. The following explanation found while searching for reason to reformat to FAT32:You should use Guiformat tool to format your card. 64Gb or above cards cannot be formatted as FAT32 format direct by Windows computer.
Still, why change the SD manufacturer's file system?
The 4k plus's "max" menu setting is awesome.
See post this thread of 31.Mayawesome in what way?
there's two main reasons not to use exFAT, it's not free, you have to pay an exorbitant license fee to Microsoft to use it, very hard to justify the cost
bigger issue though, the implementation and support of exFAT is not that good, varies from reasonable to terrible depending on which chipset you're using, to be honest even if it was free we still wouldn't use it, it's not currently sorted well enough, not for our platforms anyway
jokiin, where does the cost for exFAT come into it.
I am running Win 10pro, with the latest update, and exFAT is a free option in the format menu. Indeed for cards 64Gb and above exFAT or NTSC are the only options available.
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But there are the differences in the way the file systems work-fat32 must break up files into 2 GB pcs.?fat32 not suitable for long files?
My sj7 Star breaks files into 2GB and smaller-annoying!
Thankyou for your reply.of course it's free for you to use it, exFAT is owned by Microsoft, if we wanted to use exFAT in our product we have to pay a license fee to Microsoft, the implementation is not worth the asking price, as I said previously even if it was free I still wouldn't use it unless it worked correctly