![]() ![]() Once we have Homebrew installed we need Homebrew cask. The latest version of Homebrew has incorporated the cask command so the following section is not really needed anymore you can skip to the section on installing OSX FUSE and NTFS3G. Let’s start with Homebrew, because, let’s face it, most useful things on the Mac OS start with Homebrew… In case you haven’t yet installed Homebrew the instructions on the website are pretty good, just remember to install command line tools for Xcode as pre-requisite - xcode-select -install. So with the disclaimer out of the way - on with the installation process ! I did this with Mac OS Sierra but it should work fine on older versions as well. It’s worked so far but I haven’t connected the hard drive to a windows or a linux machine as yet. The main differences seem to be in additional tools and capabilities for checking and formatting the disk.ĭisclaimer: I installed this on my Mac Book only yesterday and I have been using this with my external hard drive to copy and paste a few small to medium sized files. The folks behind NTFS 3G then went on to build a commercial version of the driver specifically for the Mac OS called Tuxera NTFS. ![]() It uses the FUSE file system interface so that it can talk to any Unix like OS including the Mac OS. NTFS 3G is an open source driver for NTFS. The last time I had a Mac Book, I had gone with Paragon NTFS for this capability and I was just googling around to see what the state of the art was this time around when I came across NTFS 3G. I do not know why this is not provided, especially since read support works fine - but I guess that’s just Apple being quirky… One of the major gaps in the Mac OS capabilities is write support for the NTFS file system. I recently found myself with a new Mac Book Pro and I have been slowly customizing it to suit me better. Consider this my deprecation warning for this article. The method and tools used in this article may no longer reliably work on your new Mac. Since then Mac OS has been updated multiple times and has IMO got increasingly restrictive. Together with our other file systems solutions and related products it is widely deployed across industries.I published this article in Feb 2017. ntfsdecrypt: made compatible with libgrypt-1.6įor a high-performance, fail-safe commercial version with advanced features, see Tuxera NTFS for embedded systems and Mac OS X.ntfsclone: fixed bad copying of the backup boot sector. ![]()
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