Mac Mini M1 cant see files or folder on external NTFs drive

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

Posted on Nov 30, 2020 12:33 PM

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Jonathan Lang1

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Posted on Dec 12, 2020 9:11 AM

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.

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