Enable NTFS Write support on Mac OS X El Capitan

Fantastic. More reasons not to migrate to Mac OS and more reasons to press regulators to get Apple to start unbundling the hidden muck-ups of their hardware and operating systems. You convinced me in one sentence to stay away from Apple. Still a great schoolchildren platform though.

More reasons not to migrate to Mac OS and more reasons to press regulators to get Apple to start unbundling the hidden muck-ups of their hardware and operating systems.

What hidden muck-ups? That NTFS access came along with the BSD Unix base OS X was built over. Perhaps regulators should go after all of those people who contribute their time for free to the open source BSD Unix code? And hey! Why stop there. They should go after all of that hidden and undocumented stuff in Windows, too. It only takes a few minutes online to find hundreds of things you can do with Windows that aren't officially documented anywhere on Microsoft's site.

Still a great schoolchildren platform though.

I see. Still stuck in the incredibly childish platform war mentality. If a computer does what you need it to do, it's a good computer. But I guess I can still use those grade school apps on my Mac to get work done. You know, useless stuff for kids like the Adobe CC suite, Microsoft Office, Quark XPress, etc.

"You will be better served by using Windows, which never has problems"

Ahhh, reminds me of my former Systems Support Analysts' pasquinade comments about Micro(expletive) products, those numerous, chronic deleterious, nocuous (read: corporate disasters) episodes before finally listening to an in-law and migrating to a more productive, far more stable platform (Apple OS).

Hilarious ... "Windows...(never having) problems"😁😁😁

I have nothing to do with Windows, nor Microsoft and although I use them at work and occasionally at home I have limited liking for their platform. I love Visual Studio IDE, as it is on par if not better than X-code. Old backup NTSF drives work in Windows, far from seamlessly, but they work and Microsoft support has been helpful to resolve known issues. I am really disappointed that the responses from AAPL are "sorry, you have to live with inconvenience". It is sad that a Unix based platform is restricted not because of incompetence or licensing, but because this way the Apple products are kept intact and customer is reminded to stay away from competitive products. If AAPL products are so great, why are they afraid that competition from an unsupported will encroach on their turf? Makes me question the legendary reliability of Mac OS. Second thing I do not like is the bundling of closed system components and the resulting limited system inter-operability. Excuses that NTSF is unstable and has bugs are lame and of bad taste, and really not in the DNA of Apple. If they are, then too bad, maybe a sign to rethink the value of the company. No this smells like a cheap competition barrier and adds development cost to port older systems. I have a fix, but it entails development costs and weakens my argument to migrate to add Mac OS to enterprise ecosystem.

Now add to this the recent tax blow-up again in the context of unfair competition and prior war with Google and Samsun, I really question what AAPL is doing. This is not a criticism, rather an honest reflection of an observer. AAPL may take it or ignore it, but I would seriously reconsider investment plans.

OK.

Backing up drives is my first priority in case all this does is lose data, will let you know how I get on over the weekend / later.

Thanks

Thanks, just getting around to this today and did not understand a thing, not a single word in that link!

Hey-ho!

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

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.

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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?

up to possibly corrupting your OS X installation.

Or losing everything on your NTFS drive by trying to use the Terminal hack in OS X to enable write operations.

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Your response lacks any objectivity

No, it was specific to the situation posted, and it acknowledged the possible necessity for some people.

Buy yourself a PC, then you won't suffer from Apples 'failings'.

And remember that if you used a PC no other file systems will work, it's that flexible.

If someone is still using a pre OS X El Capitan, Paragon NTFS for Mac is free for personal use.

Get it here http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac-yosemite/