Just got a new Mac Mini M1, pretty impressed until I connected my old external NTFs USB drive.
It's mounted, can see it in Finder, Disk Utility etc but no files or folders are visible, just blank space, connected to windows PC all the files are there, it worked fine on my old Mini, only read but that's expected.
Tried 'ls' in Terminal, again nothing. Spent 45 mins on Apple chat, no ideas
Any ideas anyone????
Thanks
I had the same issue on a M1 MacBook Air 2020 just now. When mounting the external NTFS disk, I could see a fraction of the actual files on disk. Terminal didn't give me anything as well.
I then installed the Paragon NTFS for Mac trial, which is quite involved... but with everything enabled, and Paragon NTFS all files finally showed up.
I suspect the NTFS driver that's built in to Mac is incomplete.
I too thought it was the new M1 Mini that I purchased... until I plugged one of my external drives into my old MacBook Pro, which had never had any problems whatsoever with NTFS. Now it won't read my drives either. I have five 4 terrabyte drives and no way to read them or use them. The time it will take to transfer the contents, reformat drives and download again is exasperating! I hope someone posts a solution.
Only enabled in terminal, didn't work.
Thanks
I see the same issue on the latest MacBook Air M1. Hopefully the next software patch will resolve this issue.
So good to know I'm not alone with this exact problem. I can read some disks that are NTFS, but not others, especially ones that have primarily photo files.
No support for NTFS read in MAC OS Big Sur. To date, anway.
I have the same exact problem. I have 3 hdd and the problem occurs on all of them..
What about hard drives that were formatted before purchasing a M1, like EVERYBODIES HARD DRIVES FOR YEARS. Are you suggesting that they won't work with the M1?
If that's true, you'd expect Apple to provide a warning and instructions to prevent damage to previously used hard drives.
It would be better to just have a message saying "sorry you can't mount an NTFS drive" than having some files show but not all. Seeing just some made me think the problem was with the drive.
I have this issue as well. My M1 air could not see my NTFS Hard drive.
When I saw that. I thought my hard drive is malfunctioned. Started worrying about my files. Then I brought my MacBook air i3 2020.
There it was. My Hard drive works well but M1 Does NOT!
This is not the way to spend my time. This is a huge issue about M1.
my i3 air sees all.
my m1 air sees anything.
I will buy an extra hard drive and format this exFAT then backup my all files with my i3.
The question is What If I do not have i3 but only M1? I could not even backup my data. This is still a huge problem that should have to be solved by APPLE.
DKayBee wrote:
Is worth a fresh Big Sur install, I'd rather not, but as it's so new I don't have much on it?
I would be careful performing a clean install at this time because last year I saw some posts where people tried it on a newly released Mac and the OS installers were not new enough to support the newest hardware. I'd be careful even reinstalling macOS over top of itself at least for a little while.
I have the same problem. Using my All-in-one (OS 10.15.7, Catalina), I have no problem opening an external hard drive (NTFs). However, on Mac Mini M1 (macOS Big Sur 11.1), I can see the folder or can't open it and it shows 0 bit of size.
Hope Apple can fix it soon.
Thanks for the advice. I recently purchased a SeagateHDD backup Hub, this came with Paragon, installed it, no change, drive is mounted but cant view any files or folders.
How can you do that when you do not have any backup hard drive?
Mac Mini M1 cant see files or folder on external NTFs drive
