Link to the new sudo ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/ntfs-3g/2014.2.15/sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Install osxfuse brew install osxfuse Install osxfuse kernel instructions
Launch Terminal: Optional – Remove Previous installs of fuse4x brew remove fuse4x Install ntfs-3g brew install ntfs-3gĪt this point you need to change the mount_ntfs file, the new file will allow the writes to NTFS disks, these commands will back up the original and then link to the modified mount_ntfs file as supplied by Brew/ntfs-3gīack up the original sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig Once you have Xcode and Homebrew the following will allow you to write to NTFS disks. To start with you are going to need Xcode and some Unix style application packages – and what makes this easy on OSX is Homebrew, a package manager for OSX, follow this guide if you haven’t already got it, it will get you up to speed on both Xcode and Homebrew first, after that come back here and tackle the rest below which involves installing a couple of apps and tweaking a couple of files. If you previously had this working it may well be faster to remove all brew related packages and start again. This is all taken into consideration below.Īlso on completion when a ntfs disk is mounted a new error maybe displayed but the NTFS disk still mounts and is read/writable. Also the package ntfs-3g is updated and you have to sym link the mount_ntfs file to the ntfs-3g one, so if you have set up before and have updated your brew you need to remove fuse4x. This guide is updated April 2014, the previous package used fuse4x, is no longer required as osxfuse will work without it. This has been tested in OSX 10.9.2 Mavericks.
You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will make all NTFS drives writeable – there are also some commercial point and click apps that can get the job done if you don’t fancy wading into the Terminal.
#How to write ntfs on mac windows
By default you can’t write to Windows NTFS hard disk and USB drives as they appear as read only on the Desktop’s of OS X 10.9 users workstations – which is a bit of a pain in the ass!
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