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Q: Enable NTFS Write support on Mac OS X El Capitan

In Mac OS X Yosemite I could read and write to NTFS partitions starting the following settings:

 

1. OSXFuse

2. NTFS-3G

3. Fuse-Wait.

 

After upgrading to the El Capitan I'm not able to write to NTFS. Is there any solution? Because I tried to reinstall the software and NTFS-3G does not install properly.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Posted on Oct 7, 2015 9:54 AM

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  • by John Lockwood,

    John Lockwood John Lockwood Oct 7, 2015 9:59 AM in response to viniciusf
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    Oct 7, 2015 9:59 AM in response to viniciusf

    viniciusf wrote:

     

    In Mac OS X Yosemite I could read and write to NTFS partitions starting the following settings:

     

    1. OSXFuse

    2. NTFS-3G

    3. Fuse-Wait.

     

    After upgrading to the El Capitan I'm not able to write to NTFS. Is there any solution? Because I tried to reinstall the software and NTFS-3G does not install properly.

     

    Paragon's NTFS for Mac version 14 adds support for El Capitan.

     

    See https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

  • by viniciusf,Helpful

    viniciusf viniciusf Oct 8, 2015 4:10 AM in response to John Lockwood
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    Oct 8, 2015 4:10 AM in response to John Lockwood

    the Paragon's NTFS for Mac version 14 is free?

  • by André Hottër,Helpful

    André Hottër André Hottër Oct 11, 2015 8:16 PM in response to viniciusf
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    Oct 11, 2015 8:16 PM in response to viniciusf

    I can not understand Apple such a simple function nowadays is to store data in an HD generates so much head and cost of pain for us users!

    There is no other puglin free to install?

  • by Barney-15E,

    Barney-15E Barney-15E Oct 11, 2015 8:31 PM in response to André Hottër
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    Oct 11, 2015 8:31 PM in response to André Hottër

    André Hottër wrote:

     

    I can not understand Apple such a simple function nowadays is to store data in an HD generates so much head and cost of pain for us users!

    There is no other puglin free to install?

    Apple has its own file system format. Use that and there isn't any pain. If you need to use the drive on a Windows machine, then you have to deal with the cost and pain.

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Oct 11, 2015 8:57 PM in response to viniciusf
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    Oct 11, 2015 8:57 PM in response to viniciusf

    The free version is only for people who have purchased Seagate drives. I don't know if it only counts for certain models. Just for the heck of it, I tried the free version a month or so ago. While I do have Windows on another partition, write access still didn't work because it wasn't a Seagate drive Windows was on.

  • by leroydouglas,

    leroydouglas leroydouglas Oct 11, 2015 8:56 PM in response to viniciusf
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    Oct 11, 2015 8:56 PM in response to viniciusf
  • by 小P,Helpful

    小P 小P Oct 17, 2015 7:01 AM in response to viniciusf
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    Oct 17, 2015 7:01 AM in response to viniciusf

    This solution worked for me! Seems El Capitan has NTFS Write support

     

    Solution 2 — http://kecodoc.com/free-ntfs-read-and-write-solutions-in-mac-os-x-el-capitan-or- older/

  • by Fata Morgana,

    Fata Morgana Fata Morgana Nov 6, 2015 5:23 AM in response to 小P
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    Nov 6, 2015 5:23 AM in response to 小P

    OK.

     

    Backing up drives is my first priority in case all this does is lose data, will let you know how I get on over the weekend / later.

     

    Thanks

  • by Fata Morgana,

    Fata Morgana Fata Morgana Nov 12, 2015 10:40 AM in response to 小P
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    Nov 12, 2015 10:40 AM in response to 小P

    Thanks, just getting around to this today and did not understand a thing, not a single word in that link!

     

    Hey-ho!

     

    T

  • by JimmyCMPIT,

    JimmyCMPIT JimmyCMPIT Nov 12, 2015 10:54 AM in response to Fata Morgana
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    Nov 12, 2015 10:54 AM in response to Fata Morgana

    OS X has NEVER supported anything more than reading an NTFS formatted drive without some 3rd party tool.

    NTFS is an older Windows file system that still works in most Windows file system (Windows NT File System) and is not as robust as Microsofts newer file system ReFS

    NTFS stores Windows permissions but not mac ones, It is not necessary use an NTFS drive on a Mac unless you need Windows compatibly for larger file sizes that can not be accommodated by EXFat or FAT32

    If you have an NTFS formatted drive on your Mac and you do not have any windows environments using it then you would be better off reformatting the drive using Mac Extended (Journaled) so the ability to read/write/delete and the storing of permissions can be managed by OS X and not a 3rd party tool that could break doing an update.

     

    Any other questions?

  • by Kurt Lang,

    Kurt Lang Kurt Lang Nov 12, 2015 11:02 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT
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    Nov 12, 2015 11:02 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT
    that can not be accommodated by EXFat or FAT32

    FAT32 does indeed have a pretty restrictive limit (4 GB). Which in the time it was released, there were no such things as HD movie files and other items that routinely go way over 4 GB in size.

     

    exFAT can handle anything NTFS or ReFS can, as far as size. I know I don't have anything over 1 exabyte (1 million TB) in size.

  • by Fata Morgana,

    Fata Morgana Fata Morgana Nov 12, 2015 11:03 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT
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    Nov 12, 2015 11:03 AM in response to JimmyCMPIT

    Thanks.

     

    I think the solution lies in one of two possible 3rd party software purchases.

     

    With so many drives going back to 2005, I can't simply copy / paste them to other drives, so will have to have something installed so I can read them.

     

    With some being HD x, some y, some z, though I read that Seagate software works well, but not on others' drives I am left with no other avenues.

     

    Thanks

    T

  • by Fata Morgana,

    Fata Morgana Fata Morgana Nov 13, 2015 2:03 AM in response to Fata Morgana
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    Nov 13, 2015 2:03 AM in response to Fata Morgana

    I have downloaded Paragon's version 14 for ElC..

    So far, so good, the main focus being but one thing: to be able to read and write to offboard hard drives already formatted for Windows.

     

    Thus far, all is working well.

     

    A bit of a faff to get the authentication code and my login details to accept, but Restart x3 seems to have sorted that one out.

     

    Thanks for everyones' help.

     

    T

  • by StuFiggs,

    StuFiggs StuFiggs Nov 27, 2015 4:26 AM in response to Fata Morgana
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    Nov 27, 2015 4:26 AM in response to Fata Morgana

    I had a struggle finding a NTFS read/writer that works after downloading OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

    This morning I found at Seagate.com a link for the Samsung drive NTFS for mac (Paragon app downloaded as NTFS_for_Mac_14.0.456), which has worked beautifully.

    The link is in Portuguese but you can Google Translator it to make sure i'm not driving you to any fishing site or whatever and there's probably a version at Seagate US.

    http://www.seagate.com/br/pt/support/downloads/item/samsung-ntfs-driver-master-d l/

     

    Before I could find it, I had a little help from the IT guy from work who taught me how to mount the drive using the Terminal app from the utilities folder which already comes with the OS and can be found on the Applications folder.


    You can open the terminal and use the command sudo su:

    With your portable device plugged, type:

     

    Sudo su <return key>

    enter your mac password <return key>

    ./montaNTFS <return key>

     

    And Bam! Your HDD hard disk shows up at your desktop.

    But it only works as read, not read/write.

     

    I hope it helps.

    Sorry for the non native English.

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