Also, this is only useful if you would reconnect the same drive again and again for the write support. But editing system files like fstab which is a configuration file that contains information of all the partitions and storage devices in your computer isn’t something I’d ask just about anyone to do, lest you mess up Mac real bad. It’s just that the write support is simply not enabled by default. The trick involves some editing the /etc/fstab file which is ok for experienced Mac OS users. So when I did a little bit of research, I came upon the fact ( source) that from OS X Mountain Lion already includes BOTH read and write support for NTFS. For me, it was with a spare work MacBook where I didn’t really want to spend too much just to get the occasional need to write into an NTFS USB stick. I never faced an issue with the Paragon’s NTFS driver on my Mac. However, there are times when you might want an alternative free NTFS write support on Mac. While it costs $19.95 for a single seat license, it is the most robust solution that I’ve found thus far. In all of them, I have recommended using Paragon NTFS for Mac. From what I understand, the data corruption issue is exceedingly rare using the "stable" build but more of a problem using the "ublio" build.I’ve blogged quite a few times on the topic of getting full NTFS support on the Mac OS before. I've not had any recognizable data corruption from this, though not unmounting does result in a very slow shutdown on my system. quote:Also, it says the user has to remember to manually unmount everything (or add the appropriate workaround hack to the shutdown script) before doing a reboot/shutdown or there can be data corruption. How would you get around it, use the firmware drive select on boot? Boot Camp seems to work fine for me still, holding Option on bootup and selecting my Windows drive that way. If you are using said NTFS drive for Boot Camp that sounds like a pretty annoying one. Please investigate this issue if you want to help. I don't know any workaround or solution for this. Most of all:quote:After installing ntfs-3g, all NTFS drives will disappear from the "Startup Disk" preference pane. Quote:Originally posted by xoa:Some pretty serious bugs are listed there too, which put me off from using it. How would you get around it, use the firmware drive select on boot? Also, it says the user has to remember to manually unmount everything (or add the appropriate workaround hack to the shutdown script) before doing a reboot/shutdown or there can be data corruption. Some pretty serious bugs are listed there too, which put me off from using it. However, last time I checked the NTFS-3G still had issues with dealing with certain non-English unicode names. Usability-wise, it's similar to Paragon NTFS solution. Start using NTFS volume like HFS+ volume. Quote:Originally posted by wesley96: it like any other Mac app. Can you elaborate on this fix? Is it for a particular machine (old Mac mini G4 here)? Where can it be downloaded? Probably this is the reason of my slow speeds, who knows.In a similar way, could "ublio" NTFS-3G builds improve the writing speeds? Which leads to my following question:quote:Originally posted by szaka:You must also make sure to have Apple's USB fix to prevent bus resets from USB2 to USB1 from time to time (60 MB/s -> 1.5 MB/sec). Disk Monitor reports a red/write average of 1.4MB/s. The problem is that I cannot open/copy/delete any file containing such int'l chars nor any file inside a folder with int'l chars.2) Slow speed. However, I can actually see them properly in Finder. There were reports from having problem to display filenames with int'l chars. Since I innitially did not find any info on "ublio", I opted for the "stable".So far, the only issues I found are:1) Filenames/folders with international characters (Spanish here): An already known issue. I was wondering whether to go for "stable" or "ublio" build. HiI recently tried Macfuse + NTFS-3G combination and I can corroborate that no manual command-line fussing was needed at all: installed latest Macfuse, rebooted, installed NTFS-3G (catacombae version as mentioned in an earlier post), rebooted and voilà: my external 300GB USB NTFS-formatted drive was mounted and ready to use (with an icon in Desktop).quote:Originally posted by szaka:This is also available from marked as DMG installation image.
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