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TIP If the SD card is write protected, your camera will display the word ‘locked’ instead
of the card’s duration on the LCD touchscreen, and will display a padlock icon in the
storage menu. Unlock the card to format and record. For more information, refer to the
‘SD cards’ section of this manual.
NOTE If you have a USB-C flash disk connected, ‘external drive’ appears over
storageslot2.
Preparing Media on a Mac
Use the Disk Utility application included with Mac to format your CFast card, SD card, or USB-C
flash disk in the HFS+ or exFAT formats. Remember to backup anything important from your
media first as all data will be lost when it is formatted.
1 Connect the storage media to your computer and dismiss any message offering to use
your media for Time Machine backups.
2 Go to applications/utilities and launch Disk Utility.
3 Click on the disk icon for your camera’s storage media and then click the ‘erase’ tab.
4 Set the ‘format’ to ‘Mac OS extended (journaled)’ or ‘exFAT’.
5 Type a ‘name’ for the new volume and then click ‘erase’. Your camera’s storage media
will quickly be formatted and made ready for use.
Use Disk Utility on Mac to erase your camera’s storage media in the
MacOS extended (journaled) or exFAT format
Preparing Media on Windows
The ‘format’ dialog box can format your camera’s storage media in the exFAT format on a
Windows PC. Remember to backup anything important from your media first as all data will be
lost when it is formatted.
1 Connect your camera’s storage media to your computer using an external reader,
USB-C cable or adapter.
16Storage Media
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