Issues transferring to a new SD Card (CFW)

[deezly]

So I got a sale and upgraded to a 1TB micro SD card! Super hype about it. My collection will be huge.

I read I can just copy / paste everything from my old SD card to the new one and it would work like normal.

But when I use my switch now its pretty laggy. It takes quite some time to load games, and a lot of the time the games just flat out crash on me I've had it modded for nearly a year and never had a crash before.

Any suggestions? I did a decent amount of testing on the card and I don't think it's at fault. It's faster then my last one in all the tests.

Do you guys think maybe it got corrupted moving from card to card?

 

[H1B1Esquire]

Do you guys think maybe it got corrupted moving from card to card?

Probably.
It could also be because those cards are a couple years old, so the transfer rate is low.

I used to use USB+MSD on Wii U; LSYK: Bayonetta 2 was 15FPS and BotW corrupted its save data. The solution was a HDD with its' own power. No problems after that related to FPS drops or data coruption, even moving it with the official title mover.


Personally, if I were you (and you have all the necessary blocking methods up, as well as the ability to wipe what N sees, if you care), use the official Switch title transfer from your MSD to system, back to new 1TB, i.e., Mario on your 64gb to the title/data transfer for onboard system, then change to your 1TB and reverse the process.
I never had any issues doing it this way.

 

[deezly]

I'm thinking of trying exfat and seeing if it runs better .... Or just doing a fully clean install.

Im not sure how to go about doing what you said...

 

[deezly]

I'm thinking of trying exfat and seeing if it runs better .... Or just doing a fully clean install.

Im not sure how to go about doing what you said...

 

[l7777]

Have you verified the card is genuine with h2testw? FAT32 vs exFAT will have no impact on your issues.

 

[H1B1Esquire]

Im not sure how to go about doing what you said...

If you make it EX, it has more chances of corruption, especially if you use a lot of different homebrew (and also) search for cheats.

If you're referring to the transfer:
if you have titles on other cards and you want to safely move them:

Spoiler: a video like this

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Spoiler: or like this

@ 4:07 he makes a mention of N's recommended cards

 

[Draxzelex]

I'm thinking of trying exfat and seeing if it runs better .... Or just doing a fully clean install.

Im not sure how to go about doing what you said...

exFAT can and will corrupt your SD card one day.

 

[Thumbboozi]

Instead of copy/pasting the files trying using the guide for whatever CFW you are currently using. I copied atmosphere/Hekate to a new. SD card through the guide suggestions and had no problems, both SD cards work flawlessly now.