Mac NTFS Write? Look at this article to see how to enable NTFS Write support on Mac for FREE in seconds. The following solutions works on All Mac OS X versions: MacOS Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Maverick, Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Lion….
Why Mac OS X Can’t Write to NTFS Drives
Technically, Writing Data to different file system partition is much more complicated than Reading Data from a different file system volume. That support writing to NTFS file system without data loss leads to a massive expense to the Mac OS development and test teams. Further more, Apple may leave a chance to external Mac OS software developer to create NTFS drivers for Mac.
NTFS Driver for Mac OS – Free. NTFS (NT File System) is used in Windows Operating System, When you plug an external drive with NT File System on a Mac, you can read datas from the volume but macOS does not have write support for NTFS. This is a simple method that can be used with macOS to gain read/write access to Windows NTFS on macOS. NTFS Driver for Mac OS – Free. NTFS (NT File System) is used in Windows Operating System, When you plug an external drive with NT File System on a Mac, you can read datas from the volume but macOS does not have write support for NTFS. This is a simple method that can be used with macOS to gain read/write access to Windows NTFS on macOS.
God blessing, use one of the following 3 solutions to Write to NTFS drive on Mac for free.
I, Manually Enable Mac NTFS Write Using Terminal
- From Finder Window, find out and remember the NAME of the NTFS Volume (USB or External Disk) from the left side.
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2. Launch Terminal (Found in Applications/Utilities), then enter the following command line.
3. The fstab file then must be called in blank by default. You then enter the following command line.
Note: The NAME must be replaced by your Drive name.
What to do if the Drive NAME contains words that are separated by a space? For example MAC NTFS WRITE, the space will stand for “040” (MAC040NTFS040WRITE).
4. Press exactly Ctrl + O to save and Ctrl + X to end the Terminal.
After you unmount the NTFS Drive, then plug it into the mac again in the next time, the Volume no longer exists at the left pane side any more. To find it, From Finder window, click on Go (on the top menu), then choose Go to Folder, then enter the /Volumes. The NTFS partition must appears then, and you are able to write the Data into it.
II, Install Free NTFS Driver
NTFS-3G is the only Free NTFS driver for Mac. Take the following step to install NTFS-3G under Mac OS X.
- Launch Terminal (Found in Applications/Utilities), then enter the following command line.
2. Next, Enter the following command to install NTFS-3G from Homebrew
Be noticed: if you are doing under Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan, the System Integrity Protection needs to be disabled. Restart the Mac, then hold Command+R until seeing the recovery mode screen. From here, Launch the Terminal from the Utilities menu, enter the following command.
3. After that, reboot the Mac. Under Mac OS X, run the Terminal again, then enter the following command lines to enable NTFS-3G.
Great! NTFS write support is enabled now. If you want to uninstall NTFS-3G, Look at here.
III, Using Professional NTFS Applications
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You now should have your own way to enable NTFS Support on your Mac. Leave your comments for any problems and share my article if it is supposed to be helpful on the others. Thanks,
NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows, it is the modern file system Windows likes to use by default. As a a proprietary file system format for Windows, Mac OS X can only read NTFS drives by default, not write to them. Therefore, if you want to read and write NTFS drives on Mac, you need to use a third-party NTFS read and write software for Mac. There are some such software on the market, some of them are free software and some are paid software.
- Mounty for NTFS: free, unstable and no technical support
- OSXFUSE: free, complicated and no technical support
- SL-NTFS: free, limited and no technical support
- Paragon NTFS: Paid
- Tuxera NTFS for Mac: Paid
Hasleo NTFS for Mac is another NTFS read and write software for Mac, it is totally free, reliable, stable and simple, most importantly we provide free technical support. If you are looking for software to full read-write access to NTFS drives on MAC, Hasleo NTFS for Mac is your best choice.
Tutorial to downoad free NTFS for Mac full version to full read-write access to NTFS drives in Mac.
Step 1. Download, install and run Hasleo NTFS for Mac.
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Step 2. Click on the icon on the Mac's status bar and select the NTFS drive you want to access from the pop-up menu, then click 'Mount'.
Step 3. When the operation completes successfully, the drive has been successfully mounted and you can see the icon of the driver on your Mac's desktop.
Step 4. Click on the icon on your Mac's desktop to open the drive, now you can access the NTFS drive like a Mac's native drive, such as read, write, copy, delete files, etc.
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As mentioned above, you can free downoad the full version of Hasleo NTFS For Mac to mount NTFS drives and then full read and write access to NTFS drives in Mac OS X.