NTFS-3G uninstall on OSX Lion 10.7.3

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newtomac2012 Author

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NTFS-3G uninstall on OSX Lion 10.7.3

Hi All,

I am new to MAC and being used to windows finding it really hard to uninstall this third party software that i downloaded from CNET to be able to access an external drive that is formatted as NTFS.

After I installed this software: http://download.cnet.com/NTFS-3G/3000-2094_4-10913782.html

I tried to connect my harddrive and it has been giving me this error.

I then went on to remove this NTFS-3G application by dragging it onto the 'Trash' icon hoping this would uninstall it, but it dint.

I have googled this topic and found various forums giving ideas on how to remote it manually. I tried running these scripts on the terminal but these dint work as i am assuming these were meant for a different verison of NTFS-3G.

I have also removed the MACFUSE preference pane. I cant find any referece to NTFS-3G when I do a spot light search. I dont see anything related to NTFS-3G or Tuxera or MACFUSE on the system preference pane.

I have a MAC AIR running OS-X Lion 10.7.3

Can someone please help me remove this program. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Error Message:

"NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk1s1

at /Volumes/TOSHIBA EXT because the following problem occurred:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib

Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g

Reason: image not found"

Posted on May 15, 2012 2:18 AM

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dalstott

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May 15, 2012 7:04 AM in response to newtomac2012

I got this from the manual.

2. Installation 2.1 Installing NTFS-3G

Installing NTFS-3G is not more complicated than installing any other program, as it uses the standard Mac OS X package format to install itself.

Just double click the package NTFS-3G.pkg and follow instructions. You will have to provide administrator credentials to install it, since it needs to place files in protected system folders.

After you have installed the package, you may (in some cases when doing an upgrade) need to reboot your computer because some parts of Mac OS X tend to cache certain data from the file system bundle. In other cases, you may just need to unmount your NTFS file systems and remount them to activate the newly installed NTFS-3G version.

2.2 Uninstalling NTFS-3G

NTFS-3G can be easily uninstalled using the Uninstall NTFS-3G... button in the NTFS-3G preference pane, which should be available in System Preferences once you have installed the package. See section 4 for a description of the other features in the preference pane.

If this should fail for some reason, an uninstall script exists at the following location: /System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs-3g.fs/Support/uninstall-ntfs-3g.sh

Check this thread also.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3942492?answerId=18356139022#18356139022

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