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1. FORMATTING MICRO SD CARD FOR MAC FOR SWITCH HOW TO
2. FORMATTING MICRO SD CARD FOR MAC FOR SWITCH WINDOWS

I would get an error message telling me to return Home and to try launching again. Spotlight-V100 Bad Pathname: Operation not permitted.Īfter running these commands, I could see everything I remember from my Album, however, now none of my non-cartridge games would launch. The fourth command also returned “Indexing disabled.” The final command failed saying, “Failed trying to change dir to. The third command ran and returned with feedback finally saying “Indexing disabled.” The second command ran cleanly with no feedback. The first command failed with “.Spotlight-V100: Operation not permitted”. Not all of the commands executed successfully. Sudo chflags -R noarch /Volumes/Untitled/Nintendo/ To get the Album back, I tried running the the following commands from the reddit post in the Terminal App. No!!!! Not my Monster Hunter Ultimate kills screens and beautiful Zelda Breath of the Wild selfies! However, I was missing a bunch of photos and videos from the Album. Cross your fingers.Īfter going through these steps, I noticed that all my games and save data seemed to be in tact. cp -r ~/Desktop/MyOldSwitchMicroSDCard/Nintendo/* /Volumes/Untitled/Nintendo Launch the Terminal App and enter the following commands to copy the content from your Desktop back to the microSD card. Now that your new microSD card is ready, it’s time to copy the content from your old microSD card on to it.Ĭopy the contents of your old microSD card from the Desktop onto your New microSD Card This will wipe the microSD card and make it ready for use in the Nintendo Switch. Be careful to chose the right option here! Insert the microSD card into your Switch.

FORMATTING MICRO SD CARD FOR MAC FOR SWITCH HOW TO

Here’s how to format a microSD card with your Switch. You can perform this step while copying the old microSD card to your Mac. This will copy everything from the Nintendo directory and its subdirectories on the old SD card, which by default mounts as /Volumes/Untitled/, to the MyOldSwitchMicroSDCard directory on your desktop.ĭepending on the amount of data to be transferred and the speed of your gear this cp command may take hours to complete. You can change this directory name to whatever you want. The mkdir command is Make Directory, and it will create a directory on your desktop called MyOldSwitchMicroSDCard.

mkdir ~/Desktop/MyOldSwitchMicroSDCardĬp -r /Volumes/Untitled/Nintendo ~/Desktop/MyOldSwitchMicroSDCard A description of what the commands do follows. Launch the Terminal App and enter the following commands. Insert the microSD card into your Mac using whatever means works for you. (The microSD card is located under the kickstand on the standard Nintendo Switch.)Ĭopy the contents of your old microSD card onto your Mac Get the Old microSD Card Out of your Switch This method worked for me when moving data from a 128 GB microSD card to a 256 GB microSD card on Nintendo Switch Firmware 10.2 0.

FORMATTING MICRO SD CARD FOR MAC FOR SWITCH WINDOWS

This would all be so much easier in Windows (see Nintendo’s official guidance). My Nintendo Switch microSD card filled up and I needed to move to a larger card.