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georgemcbay
on April 23, 2012
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Something is deeply broken in OS X memory manageme...
The problem isn't with exFAT, it is with fsck_exfat, which I'm fairly certain Microsoft didn't write.
chkdsk on Windows manages to clean exFAT volumes just fine without using up 8gb+ of memory.
tomc1985
on April 24, 2012
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yeah sometimes I'll boot into Windows just to clean the drives :-(
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chkdsk on Windows manages to clean exFAT volumes just fine without using up 8gb+ of memory.