Read Write NTFS for Mac OS X

Published 15 Nov 2007

With Bootcamp and large hard drives, there is now a good chance that you need to access NTFS partitions on your Mac quite often. Now Mac OS does allow you to read files from NTFS partitions, but if you need to add, change or remove files, you're out of luck. Well thanks to some great open source projects, namely Fuse and NTFS-3G, we can now do all the writing we need. You need the following packages to make this all work.

Get MacFuse. The latest version while I write this is MacFUSE 10.5-1.1.1.
Get the NTFS-3G Mac DMG package. The latest version while I write this is NTFS-3G 1.1104.
Get iMountIt. This allows you to easily choose and remount a NTFS partition. The latest version while I write this was iMountIt 12 Sep, 2007.

Install the MacFuse and NTFS-3G packages. You should restart your system after this. Unpack iMountIt and drag it into your Applications folder. Run iMountIt and remount your NTFS partition. You should now have read/write access to your NTFS partition! You can confirm that your drive is mounted with NTFS-3G by opening up Disk Utility and clicking on the NTFS partition. The bottom of the dialog should read something like the screenshot below. NTFS-3G Install Confirmation

Credit goes to daysofourmacbooks for getting me started.

Mac OS X Leopard

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