Activate Ntfs Drivers And 10

Mac OS X can read files on NTFS hard drives, but it cant write files to them, which is a glaring omission.

Attempting to drag a file into an NTFS drive in Mac OS X will only result in your mouse cursor turning into an error sign.

Since many Hackintoshes dual-boot Windows and Mac OS X, being unable to share files between hard drives can lead to a lot of problems with file management.

Activate Ntfs Drivers And 10

Fortunately, you can enable NTFS writing on OS X with relatively little trouble-- all it takes is a few drivers and 10 minutes of your time.

Despite these developments, however, we still recommend that you follow this guide and install third-party drivers anyways.

UPDATE (September 12, 2014): Niresh (Hackintosh Zone) has combined the 3 separate drivers listed in this guide into a single all-in-one NTFS driver package, which is quicker and easier to install.

Install FUSE for OS X Download and install OSXFUSE on your computer.

While it wont enable NTFS write in Mac OS X by itself, FUSE is a necessary building block for pretty much any Mac driver that deals with third-party file systems (including the NTFS file system).

Youll need it for the next step, in which we install the NTFS-3G driver-- that driver hasnt been updated in a while, so it needs this extra compatibility layer to work properly.

Install NTFS-3G Next, download and install NTFS-3G.

This is the driver that will actually enable NTFS write capabilities on your computer.

During the installation process, youll be given an option to install the NTFS-3G driver with either No caching or UBLIO caching.

While it probably wont actually matter, you may want to choose No caching to be safe.

Then, once the installation is finished, reboot your computer.

Back in the days of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, you could simply install this driver by itself (along with MacFUSE, the predecessor to OSXFUSE), and then Mac OS X would have NTFS writing capabilities automatically.

Unfortunately, development of NTFS-3G has since stopped, which is why we need to do a bit of extra work to make everything run right.

Technically, this means that NTFS-3G is working correctly; you should now be able to write files onto your NTFS drives in Mac OS X.

However, youll probably want to get rid of these annoying error messages.

To do that, download and install the fusewait patch for NTFS-3G.

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