Macos – How to read and write to NTFS drive on Mac OS Lion

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I have tried the following solutions without success:

All of them allow me to see my NTFS external hard drive but none of them let me write to it. Actually, Paragon NTFS works until I plug the drive into a Windows Machine. Then I can't use it on my Mac without reformatting and Tuxera NTFS worked for a day then went into read only mode. Any ideas?

UPDATE

After trying multiple things, I found something that worked for me. I have Paragon NTFS installed. After formatting my harddrive to NTFS and adding files from my mac I plugged it into a Windows Machine. When I plug that same drive back into my mac it doesn't recognize it anymore unless I go into Disk Utility and repair the hard drive. This takes about a minute and leaves all files intact. Kinda a pain but it works for me needs.

Best Answer

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

Now, let us learn to do this for free.

Before we start. Make sure your external name label is ONE word. That means there is no space in between.

my disk = WRONG

my_disk or my-disk or mydisk = CORRECT

Now

  1. Open Terminal [Command+Space+"terminal"]
  2. Type: sudo nano /etc/fstab
  3. In nano, type: LABEL=my_disk none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse Note: my_disk is your disk name
  4. To save and exit Control+X and Enter and Enter
  5. [optional] For ease of access, we create a sym-link to desktop: In terminal -> sudo ln -s /Volumes ~/Desktop/Volumes

Later

When you don't need it anymore. It is as simple as:

In terminal sudo rm /etc/fstab

Done.

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