Comments on: NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:41:11 +0000

you may want to check your facts. Linux can read and write to ntfs fine. This is especially true of ubuntu.
it is apple that is behind the times.

By: EdGracz

EdGracz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:06:28 +0000

Chris, that’s interesting news. I’m about to get my first Mac — a Macbook Pro. I have an external RAID drive loaded with all sorts of pix and metadata (from Adobe Photoshop Bridge). I did all that work under XP Pro, so the drive is NTFS formatted. I’m sorry if this is a dense question, but would your unmounting/remounting solution let me access that drive from the Macbook Pro using Adobe Photoshop Bridge running natively under Leopard? Eventually I will make the complete move to Mac, but for a while I will work on both.

Thanks for being patient with my question.

Ed.

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By: Marto

Marto — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:16:32 +0000

I fnd this rather strange but hopefully I can learn something in the process. I have a 500Gb MyBook drive formatted on my pc, oh over a year ago now. I can connect wip usb cable out of my PC an plug it straight into my MacBook and be using it almost instantly. I’ve never needed to mount it to use it.
Whats the deal there, am I missing something?

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By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:06:07 +0000

Oddly enough, I just had to write to an NTFS volume yesterday, and I discovered that the mount_ntfs that comes with Leopard is capable of read/write access. All it took was unmounting the volume with Disk Utility and then manually mounting it from the terminal: mount -tntfs -orw /dev/diskwhatever /Volumes/SomeDirectory

Most likely RW mounts are not the default either because of the license issues or because it’s not stable, so I wouldn’t recommend doing this if you care about your data integrity. In my case I successfully renamed the volume and changed its icon with no apparent ill effects, but I didn’t particularly care about the drive in question.

By: Liam Cassidy

Liam Cassidy — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:22:52 +0000

Hi IdleWanderlust,

I’m not sure why the unbridled bitterness from you? Seems you have a wee chip on your shoulder, sir? In any case, Microsoft *does* allow other OS’s to natively leverage NTFS compatibility if (and only if) the relevant licenses are acquired. Apple obviously aren’t in a hurry to pay Microsoft for licensing NTFS functionality in Mac OS, but we can always live in hope!

There is a strong argument that a licensing deal of this kind would be in the best interest of both companies; but I shall leave that to another article you might want to summarily rubbish at a later date! :-)

Thanks for reading!

By: max31

max31 — Tue, 26 May 2009 10:21:30 +0000

Vanni. The screen message I get says the disc I inserted isn’t readable from the computer. The CDs were readable on my Presario just fine, and they were readable from an external drive that I later bought for it, but they were probably not written to be good on both PCs and Mac machines.

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