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# How to make the SD card readable on Mac

Please use the Windows computer. Take Win10 as an example.
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Plug your card into the computer, it will prompt you that this card is not readable, and ask you to format it. 
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Click “No”, don’t format the card now.

Now, right-click “This PC” or “My Computer”.
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Then click “Manage”.

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Find “Disk Management”

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Find the disk for your SD card.
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Yours may not called “Disk 2”, but you can find the one with the capacity close to 128GB, such as mine, 119.25GB, then that’s the disk for your SD card.
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Or you can remove the SD card from the computer, to see which Disk disappear, then that’s it.

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You will see that the Disk has 2 partition, one is 16MB, the other is 119.23GB. (Yours may not the same number).
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Right-click on the larger one, and choose “Delete Volume…”

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Click “Yes”, then you’ll see that the Disk has been combined to a single one.

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Then remove the SD card from the computer, and plug it into the camera.
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Power on the camera, you will see that the camera doesn’t start recording automatically.
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Go to the Settings of the camera.

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Find the “Format” option, and format the SD card.
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Once finish, you can use the card normally in your Mac.

**Please remember not format the card in your Mac again in the future,** 
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**just format it in the camera.**

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