

Some prescient users choose to format the external hard drive for Mac and PC before they put files on this disk. Thus, it is a hassle when you try to move a file from Mac to Windows NTFS drives because of Mac external hard drive read-only state. It would help me write more articles helpful to you in the future and I would really appreciate it.By default, macOS mounts Windows NTFS volumes in read-only mode, so users can't write to NTFS volumes or drives in macOS. If this blog post happens to be helpful to you, besides of leaving a reply, you may consider buy me a cup of coffee to support me. Open x.pdf to open the file with default application.įuse4x installs properly but kext doesn't get loaded (10.8) So, I just use iTerm2 to cd into the directory, then You can go to check the /Volumes/NTFS if the NTFS is mounted succefully or not.Īll I could see in my NTFS filesystem are directories.Īll the files in the directories can't be seen in the finder with gui mode. Sudo mkdir /Volumes/NTFS (/Volumes/NTFS could be change to anywhere you want to mount your NTFS) (for me, it's /dev/disk1s1 here.)ĭiskutil unmount /dev/disk1s1 (to make sure that the volume is unmounted) Sudo chmod +s /Library/Extensions/fuse4x.kext/Support/load_fuse4xĭiskutil list to see the identifier of your NTFS disk. Sudo /bin/cp -rfX /usr/local/Cellar/fuse4x-kext/0.9.2/Library/Extensions/fuse4x.kext /Library/Extensions Or you can get the source code of ntfs-3g hereĪfter installed ntfs-3g, you neet to load the fuse4x-kext or ntfs-3g will not work.įollow the instructions given by brew info fuse4x-kext

If you already installed homebrew as well, Here are the tips to mount the Windows NTFS filesystem on Mac OSX using command line: 1. After I saw it only have 15 days trial version, I just skipped it. (The disk select list of Paragon NTFS is empty) I find two existed softwares to help Mac user using the NTFS disk:Īfter I installed it, it just can't read my NTFS external hard drive. So I searching the web to find the solution. I didn't see it show up in the sidebar of the finder. Today, I tried to retrieve datas stored in my USB 2.0 external hard drive.Īfter I plugged it into my MacBook Air 2013 USB port,
