MacBook Pro not recognizing some flash drives
I have several MacBook Pro's and I'm finding that my older ones running High Sierra have no issue with any USB flash drive I've tried, but both of my new ones running Monterey will NOT see 8GB thumb drives created in an older MacBook but they WILL see 32GB thumb drives. All of these drives were created in the same older MacBook Pro, all are formatted ExFat. 32GB drives are recognized by all my machines, the 8GB ones are ONLY recognized by the older machines... and the Windows machines as well.
What's going on here, is there a bug in Monterey that obsoletes smaller flash drives yet works fine with larger ones? I stress that ALL flash drives are formatted identically with ExFat in the same older Mac. Neither my M1 MacBook nor my i9 MacBook will read the smaller drives.
Since I distribute videos on flash drives it's essential that they work on the client's machines. Currently I'm forced to provide everything on a 32GB drive regardless of file size. Given the price difference between 8GB and 32GB this is an issue; plus I have hundreds of smaller drives in inventory.