Keep in mind that some popular NTFS drive mounters will only work on older OS versions (for example, NTFS Mounter is no longer supported by OS that were released after Snow Leopard).Posted to Troubleshooting Tips by William on J| Approved by Jennifer Allen

There are also some third-party apps (mostly paid) that will help you mount your NTFS drives that can prove to be a better choice if you are worried about the safety of the data on your drive. However, this method of enabling writing on NTFS drives using Apple's driver has not been thoroughly tested and some errors might occur. You can simply drag it to your desktop or to your 'Favorites' for a faster access (it's easier than accessing the hidden volumes folder each time you want to use your NTFS drive).Ĭongratulations! You can now write on your NTFS drive or manage the files found on your device. As you will notice, Finder will no longer show the drive and, in order to access it, you need either to click on Go from Finder, select Go to Folder, write /volumes as the path and press Enter or, if you still have Terminal opened, simply type open /volumes.īy doing this, you will access your system's hidden volumes folder where you will see your NTFS drive. Once you have done that, simply press Control-O to save and Control-X to exit the editor. Make sure to change DRIVENAME with the exact name of your drive as it is case-sensitive (if your drive name contains capital letters, make sure that you also write them as capital letters when providing the name within the command). Now that you have launched the editor, you need to write the following command: LABEL= DRIVENAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse This is your Mac's system configuration file that mainly handles disk partitions and other file systems. This will open an editor (called nano) that will let you edit your fstab (file systems table) file. Just put the entire password and press 'Enter'. Don't be afraid if nothing appears on the screen when typing your password, it's normal. Once you have launched the Terminal, write the following command and provide your admin password when prompted. You might want to make sure your NTFS drive has a simple single-word name as you will be using it when writing a command and the Terminal interprets the space between words as a new command.

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