By default you can’t write to Windows NTFS hard disk and USB drives as they appear as read only on the Desktop’s of OS X 10.9 users workstations – which is a bit of a pain in the ass!
Jan 25, 2014 Paragon is not testing previous versions of NTFS for Mac on the Mavericks release, as a new version was required to properly support this release. While Apple has recently chosen to provide their customers with OS X updates free of charge, Paragon is required to invest time and resources to maintain the product, in order to ensure NTFS for Mac is compatible with any and all changes.
You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will make all NTFS drives writeable – there are also some commercial point and click apps that can get the job done if you don’t fancy wading into the Terminal.
- Jul 06, 2013 If Apple did adopt another filesystem as the main filesystem for OS X imagine the compatibility issues for moving external drives around. Also, would you have OS X change the filesystem on an OS upgrade or would you wind up with some people using one filesystem and other people using the new filesystem? This would become a support nightmare.
- By default Mac OS X Mavericks (same goes for older distribution) has Microsoft file system NTFS read-only. There are proprietary software like Tuxera that can enable to write to NTFS. Interesting point is that you don’t need to buy it is for free, you just need to geek a bit to make it writable.
- The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. Chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows.
- Nov 14, 2019 The Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 release proved to be the most significant of all the releases made by apple in the Mac operating system X series. Mavericks proved to have a lot of in-built features that made it stand apart from all other operating systems released under the tag of the Mac OS X line up.
This has been tested in OSX 10.9.2 Mavericks. OSX 10.8 guide here. OSX 10.11 here.
This guide is updated April 2014, the previous package used; fuse4x, is no longer required as osxfuse will work without it. Also the package ntfs-3g is updated and you have to sym link the mount_ntfs file to the ntfs-3g one, so if you have set up before and have updated your brew you need to remove fuse4x. This is all taken into consideration below.
Also on completion when a ntfs disk is mounted a new error maybe displayed but the NTFS disk still mounts and is read/writable.
If you previously had this working it may well be faster to remove all brew related packages and start again.
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Get Xcode and Brewed Up
To start with you are going to need Xcode and some Unix style application packages – and what makes this easy on OSX is Homebrew, a package manager for OSX, follow this guide if you haven’t already got it, it will get you up to speed on both Xcode and Homebrew first, after that come back here and tackle the rest below which involves installing a couple of apps and tweaking a couple of files.
Once you have Xcode and Homebrew the following will allow you to write to NTFS disks. Launch Terminal:
Optional – Remove Previous installs of fuse4x
Ntfs For Mac 10.9.5
Install ntfs-3g
At this point you need to change the mount_ntfs file, the new file will allow the writes to NTFS disks, these commands will back up the original and then link to the modified mount_ntfs file as supplied by Brew/ntfs-3g
Back up the original
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Link to the new
Install osxfuse
Install osxfuse kernel instructions
To see the commands required use the command below or simply run the 2 commands below the screen grab.
If you already have an older version of fuse4x you’ll need to also to run the other commands listed before installing this version.
Follow the 2 commands as highlighted
Re-Attach/Mount Your NTFS Drive
Paragon Ntfs For Mac Os X
You will get this warning but the disk will still load
Thats it, now all mounted NTFS drives can be written to, if it doesn’t work just disconnect/connect the NTFS drive. Some users end up with a numbered suffix like UNTITLED 2, it still works fine, however I am not aware of a fix for that.
Wd Ntfs Driver For Mac
Original mount_ntfs file here.