SD Clean/Mac

This is an add-on section for completely recreating an SD card's filesystem using Disk Utility. This should only be done if formatting does not fix your issue or is not possible for some reason.

This page is for Mac users only. If you are not on Mac, see the Windows and/or Linux pages instead.

Instructions

 * -|Disk Utility (10.14 or higher)=


 * 1) Double-click Disk Utility in the   folder.
 * 2) Choose View > Show All Devices.
 * 3) In the sidebar, select the storage device you want to erase, then click the Erase button.
 * 4) Click the Scheme pop-up menu, then choose Master Boot Record.
 * 5) * If the Scheme pop-up menu is not available, make sure you selected the storage device you want to erase — it’s at the top of the hierarchy.
 * 6) Click the Format pop-up menu, then choose  >.
 * 7) Enter a name for the new partition that does not begin with.
 * 8) Click Erase, then click Done.
 * 9) Once the format is complete, copy your data back onto the SD card.


 * -|Disk Utility (10.11-10.13)=


 * 1) Double-click Disk Utility in the   folder.
 * 2) Choose View > Show All Devices.
 * 3) In the sidebar, select the storage device you want to erase.
 * 4) Eject each volume on the disk (select the volume in the sidebar, then click the Eject button), then click the Erase button once all volumes are unmounted.
 * 5) Click the Format pop-up menu, then choose  >.
 * 6) Enter a name for the new partition that does not begin with.
 * 7) Click Erase, then click Done.
 * 8) Once the format is complete, copy your data back onto the SD card.


 * -|Disk Utility (10.10 or lower)=


 * 1) Navigate to Disk Utility. To do this, press  +  and search for "Disk Utility".
 * 2) Select your SD card.
 * 3) Click   - this option should be at the top of the menu.
 * 4) Enter a name for the new partition that does not begin with.
 * 5) Choose the format.
 * 6) Click Erase, then click Done.
 * 7) Once the format is complete, copy your data back onto the SD card.


 * -|Terminal=


 * 1) Open the Terminal app.
 * 2) Type , then find the SD card and take note of its disk name. It will look like   or.
 * 3) Once you are sure of the SD card's disk name, type , where # is the number in the disk name you found.
 * 4) * If the system cannot unmount the disk, type  to forcibly unmount it.
 * 5) Type.
 * 6) * Replace  with the disk number, and replace   with any name that does not begin with.
 * 7) Once the format is complete, copy your data back onto the SD card.