Necromancer
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Just saying FAT32 should be obsolete already.
That would break ALL the SD association rules and render the camera/card useless on virtually all systems!!!what about ex3/ex4 file system?
This is the wrong place to discuss SD standards and has absolutely nothing to do with the Mobius. The Mobius adhere to all standards, be it USB or SD card.there are rules
what do i expect? its simple, FAT file system is more likely to end up with corrupted files. i'd expect to move forward to a filesystem that is more secure. nothing more.
and that is a general saying, true not only for the Mobius but all camera's and devices that are still using it.
New devices, like the Mobius, that only support this old and flawed file system, perpetuate the use of it instead of moving forward to better and more secure systems.
I don't have any illusions that it'll change any time soon (or with the mobius in particular), but it would be great if new devices added support for better file system/s as well. And every consumer should encourage that change.
To put the record straight, I am not the developer of the Mobius! I have written the GUI and manuals, with the developer's approval, in my free time and without any payment in the hope they will be useful to someone.
For the Mobius, it is totally unnecessary to format a 64GB card to FAT32 and this is one of the reasons the manual won't tell you how to do it. I also don't consider the manual to be the correct place to encourage 'hacking' that may invalidate your card's guarantee*. Encouraging people to use non-approved formats has nothing to do with 'user friendly' and has no place in a manual.
All tools capable of formatting cards with a capacity greater than 32GB with FAT32 are, IMO, hacking tools since the FAT32 specification ends at 32GB.
If someone is so desperate to format their cards to an out-of-spec format then it doesn't require much research to find the various tools that will do so. But what's the point?
*Last year I had to replace one of my 64GB FAT32 cards which my #18 had bricked. Sandisk very clearly told me that my FAT32 formatted card was no longer covered by warranty because I had used non-approved third-party tools to reformat it. After a few more telephone calls they did, in the end, replace the card free of charge, but it was a big hassle which I wouldn't want to go thru again.