Hardware Is it safe to use fat32 formatted 64gb microsd card on switch

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So recently I upgraded my switch microsd from 32gb to 64gb. I didnt notice that the new microsd i got was in exfat. Since exfat doesnt work very well with the switch, I figured i could format it to fat32, but would there be any problems with the card, the switch, or anything else if i were to do that?
 
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fami9x said:
So recently I upgraded my switch microsd from 32gb to 64gb. I didnt notice that the new microsd i got was in exfat. Since exfat doesnt work very well with the switch, I figured i could format it to fat32, but would there be any problems with the card, the switch, or anything else if i were to do that?
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No, it should not cause any issues like you describe if you format the SD card to FAT32, no matter how large capacity card you have. You might need a third party software to format the card though
 
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