will mountain lion read/write to an NTFS external hard drive?

Hey Thawn1 does your method

For me, creating/editing /etc/fstab did not work as described above. I had to replace LABEL=... with UUID=

and use the Volume uuid that I got by typing:

diskutil info /Volumes/<LabelOfYourDrive>

into a terminal.

still work with the newest version of mountain lion 10.8.4 can u able to reply to me please well if you get it please

Hey Thawn1 does your method

For me, creating/editing /etc/fstab did not work as described above. I had to replace LABEL=... with UUID=

and use the Volume uuid that I got by typing:

diskutil info /Volumes/<LabelOfYourDrive>

into a terminal.

still work with the newest version of mountain lion 10.8.4 can u able to reply to me please well if you get it please

i started another discussion about if that solution work now for the new version of mountain lion 10.8.4

I just updated to 10.8.4 and I can still write to my external NTFS formatted USB disk, so yes, this method still works.

do u have skype at all to talk about it private?? i need ask u more info

I just put up some step-by-step instructions that should help:

1. plug your drive in (I'll assume it is labeled "Data", you can find out the label by opening disk utility)
2. open a terminal window
3. type (replace Data with the name of your drive):
   diskutil info /Volumes/Data | grep UUID
4. copy the volume uuid (in this example :EF6B132A-A6AD-43F1-B571-3C4B3CD79619)
5. type (all on one line and the quotation marks must be exactly where they are):
   sudo echo "UUID=EF6B132A-A6AD-43F1-B571-3C4B3CD79619 none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse" >> /etc/fstab
6. reboot
7. the disk will not show up in your finder or on the desktop. The reason for that is the nobrowse option which is necessary for this to work in OSX 10.8.x. Personally, I think this is just harassment by Apple. To access the disk, you need to open a terminal and type:
   open /Volumes/Data
8. voila, a finder window showing your disk will open and will allow you to write to the disk.

Message was edited by: thawn1

all 1 line with no spaces

Please stick to one chat.

I'll only reply here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5095179?answerId=22217451022#22217451022

Thank you. It works well on the newest version of mountain lion 10.8.4. Anybody who found it did not work should be aware of no quotes or spaces appeared on LABEL value. Moreover, you may add Macintosh HD\Volumes to Favorites of the Finder, then it will turn out so convenient. As the Volumes folder is hidden, you need to search it with File visbility in invisible items, just via "Find".

Have fun.

Brillian, Soha! This is by far the best solution. I followed it to a T, it worked like a charm. Thank you so much.

Hello,

I have repeated all the steps you suggested several times over but still no luck.

When i unmount and remount my hard drive, it still shows up on my desktop and in the Finder window. And of course, i still can't write on it.

Any more suggestions?

PS. My Mac runs OSX 10.8.5

Without telling us which steps you did exactly, it will be hard to help you.

Note that the LABEL= method only works for labels without spaces.

I have been using Mountain Lion and NTFS disks without issues for long.

Install Fuse for OS X first - well maintained project : http://osxfuse.github.io/

Then I installed NTFS-3G

I'm running 2010.10.2 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/catacombae/)

seems a bit out of date but works well for me.

I have not tried yet NTFS for Mac OS X http://ntfsosx.sourceforge.net/

HTH Edoardo

ETA: I forgot, a patch called fuse_wait may help

details here : https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/NTFS-3G

Well i have tried to use both the LABEL= method and the UUID= method to no avail.

My hard drive does have a space between its label, could that be the problem?

the LABEL works with \040 instead of a space

see an example here: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/ man5/fstab.5.html