I have a dash cam that will only work on a Exfat 32 format. When I hook up the disk reader and try and format the sd card to this format, it does not appear as one of the format options. Why does Apple not support the Exfat 32 format? The dash camera is inoperable without the Exfat 32 format...and my MacBook doesn't give me the option, at least not one I can see....Frustrating! Any suggestions...
Amysteryunsolved wrote:
I have a dash cam that will only work on a Exfat 32 format. When I hook up the disk reader and try and format the sd card to this format, it does not appear as one of the format options. Why does Apple not support the Exfat 32 format? The dash camera is inoperable without the Exfat 32 format...and my MacBook doesn't give me the option, at least not one I can see....Frustrating! Any suggestions...
Are you sure it is ExFat 32 not FAT32? Exfat is a newer format that replaced FAT32.
Amysteryunsolved wrote:
I have a dash cam that will only work on a Exfat 32 format. When I hook up the disk reader and try and format the sd card to this format, it does not appear as one of the format options. Why does Apple not support the Exfat 32 format? The dash camera is inoperable without the Exfat 32 format...and my MacBook doesn't give me the option, at least not one I can see....Frustrating! Any suggestions...
Are you sure it is ExFat 32 not FAT32? Exfat is a newer format that replaced FAT32.
Yeah, you're right....Fat32. I'm confusing the 2, I guess.
I have a dash cam that will only work on a Fat 32 format. When I hook up the disk reader and try and format the sd card to this format, it does not appear as one of the format options. Why does Apple not support the Fat 32 format? The dash camera is inoperable without the Fat 32 format...and my MacBook doesn't give me the option, at least not one I can see....Frustrating! Any suggestions...
FAT32 is a rather old file system and newer computers are unable to function with that
Newer computers need to be able to at least read FAT32 to work with SDHC cards. The SD Association says that FAT32 is the default file system for such cards. So that is the one that most digital cameras expect and use (for (micro)SDHC).
Here are the formats supported by Disk Utility:
File system formats available in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support
Exfat 32 not recognized by Disk Utility
