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Jun 1, 2016 2:02 AM in response to Sliv_dby godwyn1066,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 :-)
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Jun 5, 2016 12:54 AM in response to godwyn1066by IMJoseAngel,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:
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Jun 5, 2016 7:37 AM in response to IMJoseAngelby Kurt Lang,I would strongly recomment against anyone using these Terminal commands. They are undocumented by Apple for a reason. More than a few users have lost everything on their NTFS drives using them.
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Jun 5, 2016 7:59 AM in response to IMJoseAngelby Csound1,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:
You know better than Apple do you?
OP, Don't do this
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Jun 5, 2016 8:59 AM in response to Csound1by IMJoseAngel,This is not an Apple matter. This is Linux/Unix basics
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Jun 5, 2016 9:29 AM in response to IMJoseAngelby Csound1,IMJoseAngel wrote:
This is not an Apple matter. This is Linux/Unix basics
This is not Linux, it's OS X, which IS an Apple matter.
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Jun 5, 2016 9:31 AM in response to IMJoseAngelby BobTheFisherman,The computer is running OSX not Linux/Unix.
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Jun 5, 2016 10:21 AM in response to BobTheFishermanby IMJoseAngel,Beginning with the Intel build of Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, most releases have been certified as UNIX systems conforming to the Single UNIX Specification.
So... Not Unix?
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Jun 5, 2016 10:27 AM in response to Csound1by IMJoseAngel,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.
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Jun 5, 2016 10:30 AM in response to IMJoseAngelby Csound1,It is time to point out that your advice and Apples advice are contradictory, I do not believe that you know better than Apple. So
To all who read this: Do not follow advice from IMJoseAngel under any circumstances.
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Jun 5, 2016 11:16 AM in response to IMJoseAngelby Kurt Lang,It's also unsupported and flakey. If you're okay with the sudden data loss of an entire drive, go for it.
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Jun 5, 2016 11:22 AM in response to IMJoseAngelby Barney-15E,Beginning with the Intel build of Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard, most releases have been certified as UNIX systems conforming to the Single UNIX Specification.
So... Not Unix?
Where, exactly, in the Single UNIX Specification is it required to support a specific File System?
And, bonus points, why would a UNIX specification direct support for a Proprietary File System written for a product that is not UNIX compliant.
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Jun 5, 2016 1:32 PM in response to Barney-15Eby IMJoseAngel,Sorry, but the first discussion was about if OS X is Unix and yes. From the official Apple document of El Capitan, the KERNEL is based on FreeBSD. This is UNIX as far as I know.
In the other hand, the say in the same document that the Kernel supports NTFS (I remind you we are in XXI century with a great percentage of disk with this strange format ).
The thing is that Apple gives support just to NTFS (read-only). This doesn't mean you can't to mount it as RW as I do daily and without any issues from one since one year now. Is just a simple recomendation from a humble user. Leave people take their own decissions and do their own tests to find that is a secure way to work with NTFS.
Regards
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Jun 5, 2016 1:36 PM in response to IMJoseAngelby Csound1,By all means use the method on your Mac's, just don't promote it's use by others and there will be no disagreement.