Read/Write NTFS free for Macosx High Sierra

I would very strongly suggest you not use cojimenez's suggestion. Or, the utility linked to by kangwankraikal. The utility simply performs the same Terminal command as shown by cojimenez.

This is an undocumented command in Terminal. It's undocumented for a reason. It is known to occasionally destroy NTFS drives. Mounty's own page tells you that, and even suggests using Paragon's or Tuxera's utilities. From their site:

Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!

This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as "dirty" and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance, like Paragon Harddisk Manager or Tuxera Disk Manager.

If you must use NTFS, spend the lousy $20 and get an NTFS driver that is proven to work.

There is a free solution but it is still on testing, nevertheless, works for me. Just go to your terminal and create the following file:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

In there paste the next line:

LABEL=MyNtfsDeviceLabel none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

Just replace "MyNtfsDeviceLabel" by your device label.

Save and its done.

This solution only works for this one device, if you have other one, you must need to add a new line for every new device. If the device does not appear in the "finder" left menu, in your terminal write: open /Volumes, and your device will appear in there.

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Watched full video

Use NTFS Drives On Mac Os High Sierra 10.13 - YouTube

If you need to use the drive with both Mac and Windows you could reformat it ExFat. Both Mac and Windows read/write ExFat formatted drives. Copy off your data first before formatting then copy the data back onto the newly formatted drive.

There IS a free file called NTFS-3G

NTFS 3G · osxfuse/osxfuse Wiki · GitHub

I am not sure about the compatibilty

If I needed it, I would choose Paragon simply because it costs less. Both are known to work well, so why purchase the more expensive option?

Do you need to use that drive with a Windows computer?

If not, save yourself some hassle and reformat as macOS Extended.

You'll need to move the data off of the drive, then erase it in Disk Utility, then copy everything back.

Kurt Lang wrote:

If I needed it, I would choose Paragon simply because it costs less. Both are known to work well, so why purchase the more expensive option?

Well I've never even looked at Tuxera, never read anything about Tuxera, have no idea if it is more stable etc. Don't know what their upgrade pricing structure is.

So I can't answer that question. 😎

I agree to Kurt Lang's post about both "options" presented by Cojimenez and Knagwankraikal.

Don't use those "solutions".

FWIW, I use Paragon NTFS for Mac 15. No preference. It's just the first one I picked.

Heh! 😁 I can see where my response to you sounded like I was questioning your choice. I wasn't. Just throwing my reasoning out why I would choose Paragon's software.

Actually i wasn't being defensive. 😁

I would be willing to answer the question if I knew. I didn't think you were questioning my choice. Especially since it's the same as yours. 😎