It’s also great when transferring files from Windows to Mac directly. If you have used the Windows operating system by any chance, you could notice that NTFS is a default file system in Windows.Īs we have mentioned earlier – if you have been trying to get the best of both worlds (Microsoft and Apple), you would come across the time when you’d want to transfer some files from Mac to a hard drive that’s using Microsoft’s NTFS format. NTFS stands for an NT File System which is a file system developed by Microsoft. In the post down below, you’ll be able to find out everything you need to know about NTFS format, how to use it properly, and even what apps could you use on Mac to write files directly to the NTFS’s drive. Well, truth to be told – it takes a bit of patience and research. And if that’s you, you’ve probably needed to write files on Microsoft’s NTFS drive. Even though these two companies have been rivals from decades ago – they’re still on the top, and the choice is a hard one to make.īut many people try to juggle between these two choices and get the best of both worlds. From what I understand, the data corruption issue is exceedingly rare using the "stable" build but more of a problem using the "ublio" build.Most of the time, people don’t like to combine Microsoft and Apple products. I've not had any recognizable data corruption from this, though not unmounting does result in a very slow shutdown on my system. quote:Also, it says the user has to remember to manually unmount everything (or add the appropriate workaround hack to the shutdown script) before doing a reboot/shutdown or there can be data corruption. How would you get around it, use the firmware drive select on boot? Boot Camp seems to work fine for me still, holding Option on bootup and selecting my Windows drive that way. If you are using said NTFS drive for Boot Camp that sounds like a pretty annoying one. Please investigate this issue if you want to help. I don't know any workaround or solution for this. Most of all:quote:After installing ntfs-3g, all NTFS drives will disappear from the "Startup Disk" preference pane. Quote:Originally posted by xoa:Some pretty serious bugs are listed there too, which put me off from using it. How would you get around it, use the firmware drive select on boot? Also, it says the user has to remember to manually unmount everything (or add the appropriate workaround hack to the shutdown script) before doing a reboot/shutdown or there can be data corruption. Some pretty serious bugs are listed there too, which put me off from using it. However, last time I checked the NTFS-3G still had issues with dealing with certain non-English unicode names. Usability-wise, it's similar to Paragon NTFS solution. Start using NTFS volume like HFS+ volume. Quote:Originally posted by wesley96: it like any other Mac app. Can you elaborate on this fix? Is it for a particular machine (old Mac mini G4 here)? Where can it be downloaded? Probably this is the reason of my slow speeds, who knows.In a similar way, could "ublio" NTFS-3G builds improve the writing speeds? Which leads to my following question:quote:Originally posted by szaka:You must also make sure to have Apple's USB fix to prevent bus resets from USB2 to USB1 from time to time (60 MB/s -> 1.5 MB/sec). Disk Monitor reports a red/write average of 1.4MB/s. The problem is that I cannot open/copy/delete any file containing such int'l chars nor any file inside a folder with int'l chars.2) Slow speed. However, I can actually see them properly in Finder. There were reports from having problem to display filenames with int'l chars. Since I innitially did not find any info on "ublio", I opted for the "stable".So far, the only issues I found are:1) Filenames/folders with international characters (Spanish here): An already known issue. I was wondering whether to go for "stable" or "ublio" build. HiI recently tried Macfuse + NTFS-3G combination and I can corroborate that no manual command-line fussing was needed at all: installed latest Macfuse, rebooted, installed NTFS-3G (catacombae version as mentioned in an earlier post), rebooted and voilà: my external 300GB USB NTFS-formatted drive was mounted and ready to use (with an icon in Desktop).quote:Originally posted by szaka:This is also available from marked as DMG installation image.
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