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Originally Posted by JimSmith94
Why is the format necessary? I've never formatted any of my other cards and didn't format this 32GB card either. I've copied about 10 GB of files to it so far with the card reader that came with it, and haven't had any problems.
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Formatting is like washing a shirt. When you buy a shirt (microsdhc card) it comes with chemicals, dye, and sweat (corrupt files) from the sweatshop (sweatshop) it was manufactured in, so we wash them before wearing. It just ensures that everything works well and we don't have a reaction (errors) to the chemicals (non formatted card).
When we wear the shirt regularly it may get dirty, covered in hooker sweat (too many files), stripper glitter (oh crap), or horndoctor blood (corrupt files again). While the shirt might be dirty we can wash (format) it. This should remove those stains and smells and it will be clean, meaning no stains (errors).
Haha. I just do it because when I do it works better.