Enable NTFS Write support on Mac OS X El Capitan

You can mount your disk manually following these steps:

sudo umount /Volumes/UNTITLED

sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk3s1 ~/ntfs-volume

Or use mounty:

http://enjoygineering.com/mounty/

This solution worked for me! Seems El Capitan has NTFS Write support 🙂

Solution 2 — http://kecodoc.com/free-ntfs-read-and-write-solutions-in-mac-os-x-el-capitan-or- older/

IMJoseAngel wrote:

You can mount your disk manually following these steps:

sudo umount /Volumes/UNTITLED

sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk3s1 ~/ntfs-volume

Or use mounty:

http://enjoygineering.com/mounty/

You know better than Apple do you?

OP, Don't do this

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OS X has NEVER supported anything more than reading an NTFS formatted drive without some 3rd party tool.

NTFS is an older Windows file system that still works in most Windows file system (Windows NT File System) and is not as robust as Microsofts newer file system ReFS

NTFS stores Windows permissions but not mac ones, It is not necessary use an NTFS drive on a Mac unless you need Windows compatibly for larger file sizes that can not be accommodated by EXFat or FAT32

If you have an NTFS formatted drive on your Mac and you do not have any windows environments using it then you would be better off reformatting the drive using Mac Extended (Journaled) so the ability to read/write/delete and the storing of permissions can be managed by OS X and not a 3rd party tool that could break doing an update.

Any other questions?

Hi there

quite new to mac world, i had the problem of transferring datas from win world to mac world.

all suggestions recommended didn't work since the new os x.

but for me it worked FINE just installing osxfuse - http://osxfuse.github.io

no need for nags 3g, which i cannot install.

bye!

s_

Yes, format the drive for use with a Mac, not Windows.

Yup, I already know about these. Good information though for those who don't.

NTFS-3G was actually maintained by Tuxera as an open source NTFS add on. I purposely never mention the older NTFS-3G as an option anymore because, as the link shows, it no longer works well. You'd have to go back to Snow Leopard or older for it to be useful.

I tried this and it did not work.

text inside fstab:

LABEL=2_GB_NTFS_1_K none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

LABEL=128_GB_NTFS_1_K none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

I can see the 2_GB.. in Disk Utility but not in Finder

I don't see 128_GB.. in either

I tried mounting the 2_GB_ in Disk Utility but still does not show up in Finder

i ran "open /volumes" in terminal and still both do not show up in finder

- You should use Disk Utility to determine the Universal Unique Identifier

- Then use the following command lines to mount the NTFS drive

sudo nano /etc/fstab

and

UUID=Universal Unique Identifier none ntfs rw

This works in Yosemite. I have not experienced El Capitan yet, but should work too.

Source: http://macntfs.com/read-and-write-to-ntfs-drives-on-mac-os-x-using-disk-utility- and-terminal/

Apple has solved so many difficult technical problems, I do not understand why it cannot write to NTFS.

It looks like a marketing decision: MACs can read from NTFS but cannot write. In other words: bring (read NTFS) your data to MAC but MAC will not give data back.

Microsoft has solved so many difficult technical problems, I do not understand why it cannot write to HFS+.

It looks like a marketing decision: PCs can't even read from HFS+ much less write to it. In other words: if you use a Mac, go soak your head.

See how easy that is to turn around?

Both NTFS and Apple's HFS are proprietary. Neither licenses their drive format to anyone. Those solutions that exist were figured out on their own by the companies who make them. Such as Paragon's apps to write NTFS from a Mac, or their sister product that allows Windows users to read from and write to a Mac drive. In other words, neither is 100% compatible with either architecture. What they offer works, but not necessarily perfectly.

I can confirm

sudo umount /Volumes/UNTITLED

sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk3s1 ~/ntfs-volume

works perfectly. I'm sure it will be used for those who really know about how OS X and other Unix based OS work.

I can not understand Apple such a simple function nowadays is to store data in an HD generates so much head and cost of pain for us users!

There is no other puglin free to install?