NTFS Assistant is a professional NTFS driver for macOS that can easily help us mount NTFS drive on macOS Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13 as a regular drive with read-write mode. NTFS Assistant has a very low price and can mount NTFS drive, transfer files with fast speed. Write to NTFS Drives on Mac with Paragon NTFS for Mac Since your Mac does not have an official option to write data to NTFS drives, you are forced to use a third-party app to get the job done. If you do a quick Google search, you would come across many software claiming to help you with the Mac OS NTFS write.
This article shows you how to enable NTFS Write support on a 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
Mac Write To Ntfs Drive
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.
God blessing, it is able use one of the following 3 solutions to Write to NTFS drive (USB or External Hard Drive) on Mac for free.
I, Manually Enable Mac NTFS Write Using Terminal in OS X
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- Hasleo NTFS for Mac is a powerful yet easy-to-use utility primarily designed to help users full read and write access to NTFS drives on Mac, which helped us solve the problem that the Mac can't write NTFS drives. Tutorial to mount, full read and write access to NTFS drives on Mac with Hasleo NTFS for Mac.
- Enable NTFS Write Support on Mac for free To enable write support on an NTFS-formatted external drive, you can install an NTFS driver. That way, the existing data remains intact, and you can read/write to the drive on both macOS as well as Windows. Now, there are both free and paid NTFS drivers available for Mac.
- From Finder Window, find out and remember the NAME of the NTFS Volume (USB or External Disk) from the left side.
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 the NTFS Drive is unmounted (you take it off), 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 NTFS-3G, a Free NTFS Driver for Mac
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.
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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 for Mac support must be enabled now. If you want to uninstall NTFS-3G, Look at here.
III, Use Professional NTFS Driver
Paragon NTFS For Mac 15 is the best NTFS Driver for Mac. It support fully Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, and older OS X versions.
- Beats down the barriers between Windows and Mac® OS!
- Effectively solves the communication problems between the Mac® system and NTFS.
- Providing full read&write access to Windows NTFS partitions under Mac® OS X.
- Excellent solution for end users, SOHO and the Enterprise.
Mac Mount Ntfs Write
After a few seconds for installation, users are able to write to any NTFS drives on Mac with the transfer rate is the same as with the native HFS file system. The Driver costs user just $19.95 for 1 license that can be used on 1 Mac, $49.95 for 3 licenses that can be used on 3 Macs ($58.95You Save 15%), and $74.95 for 5 licenses that can be used on 5 Macs ($99.75You Save 25%).
Some questions that might come up
My NTFS disk diapppears for Desktop when using Mounty
Unfortunately this is by design.
Mounty is using the Apple kernel driver. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu.
My USB stick will not re-mount. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this doesn't help.
This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.
Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!
Write Ntfs On Mac
This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance, like Paraogn Harddisk Manager or Tuxera Disk Manager.
Paragon NTFS For Mac 15 is the best NTFS Driver for Mac. It support fully Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, and older OS X versions.
- Beats down the barriers between Windows and Mac® OS!
- Effectively solves the communication problems between the Mac® system and NTFS.
- Providing full read&write access to Windows NTFS partitions under Mac® OS X.
- Excellent solution for end users, SOHO and the Enterprise.
Mac Mount Ntfs Write
After a few seconds for installation, users are able to write to any NTFS drives on Mac with the transfer rate is the same as with the native HFS file system. The Driver costs user just $19.95 for 1 license that can be used on 1 Mac, $49.95 for 3 licenses that can be used on 3 Macs ($58.95You Save 15%), and $74.95 for 5 licenses that can be used on 5 Macs ($99.75You Save 25%).
Some questions that might come up
My NTFS disk diapppears for Desktop when using Mounty
Unfortunately this is by design.
Mounty is using the Apple kernel driver. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu.
My USB stick will not re-mount. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this doesn't help.
This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.
Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!
Write Ntfs On Mac
This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance, like Paraogn Harddisk Manager or Tuxera Disk Manager.
Sometimes the files are grayed out and cannot be modified anymore.
This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to the Manpage of xattr for further explanation. If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with ls -l@ , and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple. , i.e.: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt
Unable to re-mount in read/write mode when trying to mount Windows 10 partition
If you try to mount a Windows System partition, Mounty might fail when Hibernation feature is enabled. There is a Fast Start feature in Windows which might be enabled by default, and this is causing the drive to be locked. Within Windows running, you need to run the command powercfg /hibernate off in an admin powershell and restart Windows to disable this feature and remove the lock to enable it for Mounty. Thanks to Art Schultz pointing that out.
