My daughter likes her old digital camera, yet Ventura’s Disk Utility doesn’t seem to show FAT16 as a default partitioning format. Never fear, others have already encountered this. First, I verified that the Compact Flash card’s location using this command:

diskutil list

This showed me it was sitting at /dev/disk2. Next, I executed this command to create a single 1 GB partition on the memory card and while leaving the remaining disk capacity as free space:

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 MBR “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME 1024M free “” 0B

Finally I executed this command to create 15 2 GB partitions on the memory card while leaving the remaining disk capacity as free space:

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 MBR “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME2 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME3 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME4 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME5 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME6 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME7 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME8 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME9 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME10 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME11 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME12 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME13 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME14 2048M “MS-DOS FAT16” NONAME15 2048M free “” 0B

All these disk partitions mounted without a hitch on my Mac, but the Kodak EasyShare M530 refused to see any of them. Boo hiss. I must have done something wrong with the formatting type. For now, I’m sending her to Denmark, Sweden and France with a Lightning to USB-B and mini USB-A to micro-USB so that she can use her phone to import all of her photos. I tested it with my XS Max and it works great – she’s going to love it, especially since her 13 Pro has 512 GB of storage.

Along the way, I found this source helpful.