Timeline for How often should memory cards be formatted?
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| Dec 2, 2014 at 9:43 | comment | added | James Snell | Upvoted for manufacturer references, although as matt points out, it's likely to be fuelled by laziness on their part rather than for any genuine attempt at best-practice. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 18:29 | comment | added | MikeW | Another possibility is formatting on a computer then pulling it out without using Safely Remove Hardware which I'm sure many people do. Not sure how likely that is to result in errors on the card. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 17:52 | comment | added | mattdm | +1, but my suspicion is that these statements actually add to the superstition via oversimplification. The manufacturers' motive is to reduce their support calls. I think there's probably no problem at all if you format out of the camera correctly (after all, brand new cards arrive formatted out of camera), but that there's so many ways to do it wrong (wrong filesystem, bad blocksize choices, etc.) that it's much easier for them to just tell us to always do it in-camera. | |
| Feb 23, 2012 at 17:31 | history | answered | MikeW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |