How can I perform an sd card format on my tablet?

[Tricia_Needs_Help]

sd card format on tablet?

I am wanting to move private photos from my note 3 to my android tablet both are using lollipop. When I inserted my micro SD w the pics on it from phone into this tablet it is asking me to format??? I clicked it and its warning me I can lose my data already on it. (I'm sorry I am not the sharpest tool) I purchased this next book just for the purpose of saving my pics on it bc I wanted to eventually save these private pics to an jump drive or whatever y'all call it these days & I don't want google+ sharing my pics w the world in the cloud. I have over 2000 pics and I tried just plugging straight into the tablet w data cord and the tablet starts to download them but always stops like 900-1200 into it. please help if you can. I know I'm a hard case.

 

[RobertH1]

Re: sd card format on tablet?

Try again with the cable and just leave it alone for an hour or two. I can't see why a data transfer won't work if you have enough space on your tablet. Obviously do not format the SD card as that will delete all your data.

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[Rukbat]

Re: sd card format on tablet?

1. What you store on Google is yours - Google doesn't share anything - you share a file if you want to. It's the same private storage as any cloud account. Google+ is entirely different. But syncing pictures is storing them privately. (Storing them on more than 1 cloud account is a better idea. If Google is down for some reason, and you need something you backed up to the cloud, Dropbox or Mega will still be up. Even if the entire US disappears, Mega is in New Zealand. Unless the planet disappears (in which case you won't need your data), your data is safe. And private.

(And if both the Note 3 and the tablet are on the same Google account, the pictures are synced almost as you take them - you can take a picture in California and someone who has your tablet in New York can see it in a few minutes. But ONLY someone with access to your Google account. Playing around with a customer's account, if you work for Google, doesn't result in just getting fired.)

2. If you're taking the card out of the note 3 and putting it into the SD card slot on the tablet, it's possible that, if it's a large enough card (64GB and up, 32GB if you deliberately formatted it as exFAT), the tablet can't handle exFAT and wants to reformat it as FAT32 - which won't work as a single partition on a large card. Or it could be a problem with the card (see Using chkdsk to fix a corrupted SD card).

If the card is too large for the tablet, copy - a folder tree at a time, see #3 - to a PC or laptop first, then when you have everything copied, copy, in the same way, to the tablet.

3. Don't try transferring an entire card at once. Some USB chips can't handle the load, overheat and mess up until they cool off (most USB 2.0 hubs do that). Copy one folder at a time. (If you have all the pictures in one place, that's a bad idea from the human standpoint - you have to look through 2000 pictures every time you're looking for one. Putting them into folders might mean looking throughonly a fw pictures at a time. (DCIM/Vacation2015/GrandCanyon/Mules might only have 5 pictures in it, the total of all folders in Vacation2015 might have 100 pictures in a few folders, but DCIM has a total of over 2000 pictures - all your pictures. Organizing them makes it easier to find things.

Copy major folderrs, like DCIM/Vacation2015. That way you'll only be copying 100 files or so at a time.