Enable NTFS Write support on Mac OS X El Capitan

viniciusf wrote:

In Mac OS X Yosemite I could read and write to NTFS partitions starting the following settings:

1. OSXFuse

2. NTFS-3G

3. Fuse-Wait.

After upgrading to the El Capitan I'm not able to write to NTFS. Is there any solution? Because I tried to reinstall the software and NTFS-3G does not install properly.

Paragon's NTFS for Mac version 14 adds support for El Capitan.

See https://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

I had a struggle finding a NTFS read/writer that works after downloading OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

This morning I found at Seagate.com a link for the Samsung drive NTFS for mac (Paragon app downloaded as NTFS_for_Mac_14.0.456), which has worked beautifully.

The link is in Portuguese but you can Google Translator it to make sure i'm not driving you to any fishing site or whatever and there's probably a version at Seagate US.

http://www.seagate.com/br/pt/support/downloads/item/samsung-ntfs-driver-master-d l/

Before I could find it, I had a little help from the IT guy from work who taught me how to mount the drive using the Terminal app from the utilities folder which already comes with the OS and can be found on the Applications folder.

You can open the terminal and use the command sudo su:

With your portable device plugged, type:

Sudo su <return key>

enter your mac password <return key>

./montaNTFS <return key>

And Bam! Your HDD hard disk shows up at your desktop.

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

I hope it helps.

Sorry for the non native English.

Well, NTFS writing support has been removed from El Capitan os and later, to enable that u need a Third-Party Drivers which ve some as free and others r paid, the best among them is :

1. Paragon NTFS for Mac which costs 19.95$
2. Tuxera NTFS for Mac which costs 31$

but better formatting ur external drives with exFAT, ensuring they work well on both Windows and Mac OS X without any extra work. if you must write to an NTFS drive, one of the paid, third-party drivers will be the best-performing, least-effort option.

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.

Free solution: Installing the combination of Fuse, NTFS-3G and Fuse-wait. However, NTFS-3G has many cons:

- Complicated installation

- Commonly face a nightmare error of "NTFS-3G could not mount"

- Read/write speed to NTFS partition is not similar to native HFS+

- Limited to accessing to big number of files and large volume of Data

- Does not support completely all NTFS versions

- No functions to create, verify and repair NTFS partitions

- Operations on SSDs is not optimized

To avoid potential error, I strongly recommend installing NTFS-3G using command lines through Terminal.

Paid NTFS drivers: There are only 2 applications: Paragon NTFS 14 and Tuxera NTFS 2015

• Tuxera NTFS 2015 is actually developed from NTFS-3G, an open-source, which is contributed by hundreds of Linux distributions. It is still associated with very common "Tuxera NTFS could not mount" error. It should not be called a professional NTFS software, while it costs $31 like steal.
• Paragon NTFS 14 is developed by Paragon, a very well-known company creating very famous and powerful softwares in Hard Drivers Integration field. It supports all NTFS versions and works stably. I am not sure the promotion is not expired yet, but Paragon offers 25% OFF discount page here.

For more information, look at the comparison table here Paragon NTFS 14 vs Tuxera 2015 vs NTFS-3G.

Tuxera NTFS for Mac is a great solution.

I had Tuxera on Mavericks but when I upgraded to El Capitan I found I couldn't even mount NTFS volumes. I downloaded the latest Tuxera version which solved the problem, even better it respected my previous version's licence so I didn't have to buy it again. Nice :-)

I have downloaded Paragon's version 14 for ElC..

So far, so good, the main focus being but one thing: to be able to read and write to offboard hard drives already formatted for Windows.

Thus far, all is working well.

A bit of a faff to get the authentication code and my login details to accept, but Restart x3 seems to have sorted that one out.

Thanks for everyones' help.

T

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/

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.

Unix and Linux are not the same thing. Linux was independently written as a Unix clone. They look much alike, and use many of the same commands, but they are not the same.

Just as Microsoft has no support of any kind for Apple's HFS+ (Mac OS Extended), which it can neither write or read, Apple has no official write support for NTFS. Both are proprietary formats that neither has ever licensed to anyone. As such, no one but Apple and Microsoft know exactly how to safely write to their respective formats.

As I wrote earlier in this same topic, both NTFS and Apple's HFS are proprietary. 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.

But either Paragon's or Tuxera's offerings are a billion times safer to use than an unsupported and undocumented Terminal hack.

Mr.Goldsmith wrote:

Hi, Try out Seagate Paragon Ntfs driver

http://www.seagate.com/in/en/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-maste r-dl/

But remember that it will fail again, the next time there is an upgrade.

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...

Hi, Try out Seagate Paragon Ntfs driver

http://www.seagate.com/in/en/support/downloads/item/ntfs-driver-for-mac-os-maste r-dl/

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)

Yup, and it's not even much of an inconvenience. $19 software (Paragon's) and the issue is solved.

I would bet you remember the OS hodgepodge at the beginning of the personal computer revolution. It appears a lot of folks here don't remember it, or were much too young at the time. All kinds of PC's with their own OS. They all looked like MS-DOS (for the most part), but were completely incompatible with each other. There was Wang computer, Tandy, the DEC Rainbow, etc. Those and more on top of DOS and Apple.

People gripe about this one now easily solved issue of only having to deal with two major OS systems. They missed the real fun of trying to get files from one system to another when there were at least eight.