greengiant912 Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 So when I bought my new Macbook pro, one of the things I didn't even think about was the ability to write to a NTFS drive using OS X. It was one of those things that I thought would of been automatic on Apple's part. You can read files on NTFS but you cannot write to NTFS devices. I use a lot of flash drives/ external hard drives for school and stuff and when I threw my hard drive on my MBP to copy something I couldn't this was a huge disappointment and really my only complaint about OS X, which is native full support for other file systems. I have been working with Linux for about a year now, and most distros allow this which is why I was so shocked when I found out that OS X which is closer to Unix than Linux is did not support this feature. I did some research and their are third party solutions out there that will accomplish this. I personally think that in a day of modern operating systems when Apple is even trying to convince PC users to make the switch that this should be a fully supported feature. What do the other MAC people out there think? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3bruts1d Posted December 10, 2009 Posted December 10, 2009 Mac OS X 10.6 has support to write to NTFS, however it is not enabled. Since NTFS is a MS File System, I don't expect anyone other than MS to provide support for it... just like I don't expect MS to offer support for *nix or Apple file systems. Sure, it'd be nice if everyone would play nice together, but I don't expect it. As long as you aren't moving files >4GB, FAT32 should work for any thumb drive and will allows both Windows and OS X to read and write. And while it takes longer, CDs and DVDs work well also. I'd just get a NAS and format it however you like (NTFS or Apple) and then connect to it via SMB or FTP, or use VMWare Fusion. Of course, I hardly do anything on my PC anymore. *shrug* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdaddy25fb Posted December 18, 2009 Posted December 18, 2009 MacFUSE. Use it all the time. Has support for TONS of other partitions than just NTFS...ext2/3..many more. Google it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kash Posted December 18, 2009 Posted December 18, 2009 Snow Leopard gives you the option to write to NTFS drives, but it's not enabled by default. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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