Enable NTFS Write support on Mac OS X El Capitan

Officially it is supposed to only work with the Seagate drives which come pre-formatted as NTFS.

StuFiggs wrote:

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

Not much of a R/W solution then.

The USA link for the Paragon driver:

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/

When I wrote "Before I could find it," I meant I used a temporary solution though Terminal and I put in there just in case anybody would wanna know the tool.

I know it's not what TS asked, but for me formatting drive to exFat was the best solution. Native support for both Windows and Mac OS, support for big files. Best option if you need to share files with windows, I regret mistaking it with fat32. (fat32 doesn't support files bigger that 4GB so I thought same about exfat)

I install the paragon from http://www.seagate.com/br/pt/support/downloads/item/samsung-ntfs-driver-master-d l/

and it really work Read/Write with my external seagate drive after OS X rebooted...

ExFat is not supported in XP unless you patch from MS, it is not part of SP 3.

If you don't need the device to connect directly to a Windows computer you get no benefit from remaining in any Windows native format on your Mac.

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Seagate supports a software to write NTFS on MAC. NTFS_for_MAC. You can down load from

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-master-dl/

It come with Seagate external disk. I have been using for several years and I just installed and tested on OS X 10.11.

It may only work for Seagate external disk only. Time Machine will not work. We have to use other backup facilities.

NTFS is Microsofts licensed system, use it and pay is the proper method. Every one wants something for free, why should MS give it away?

Kurt Lang wrote:

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. 🙂

But exFat is less reliable than FAT (it only has one allocation table) so it is an unwise choice.

Hmm. I wonder what happened to the post I made about 20 minutes ago? I don't know what could have possibly been wrong with it. It's been mentioned and discussed hundreds of times on these forums (the NTFS Terminal hack).

Didn't know that about exFAT. Being named FAT (File Allocation Table), I figured the designation meant just what it implies. It's an extension of FAT.

Well, apparently not. It's a similar name only. As described on Wikipedia, It is loosely based on the File Allocation Table architecture, but incompatible, proprietary and protected by patents. So no actual relationship to the original FAT at all. exFAT doesn't even support the MS-DOS original FAT specification of 8.3 files names.

And it only has one file allocation table, no redundancy. (which makes recovery difficult) it was designed as a cheap and efficient solution for short term storage (digital cameras particularly) its not good for a backup medium.

I believe it came about as viable solution for digital camera storage was needed, storage which is (a) cheap and (b) short term. Thus its use on CF cards. It is fairly unreliable, if the size limit is not a problem FAT32 is a better system.

Apple users, those who predominantly rely on Apple OS X as their primary OS, who ideally would need only infrequent access to NTFS filesys disks, the trial vs. of Paragon NTFS for Mac 14 required less than 3 minutes to download and install. The activation to paid version about the same amount of time.

Trial, activation of paid subscription was absolutely painless, application functions, flawless. The cost, minimal at less than twenty clams. At that paltry cost, over what should be a low requirement for OS X users (access to NTFS drives), Paragon's NTFS for Mac 14 is well worth the small investment.

Bottom line, as others have implied here, fooling around with terminal cmd, simply to avoid paying a tiny fee, just to get something for "free," isn't worth the potential costs ... up to possibly corrupting your OS X installation.