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djpaubes

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#61784 23-May-2010 21:47

Hey guys,

I want to be able to read/write to NTFS usb disks on my macbook. I know there is software out there but I want to read/write nativley. I've read some forums about setting up fstab using the UID's of the disk but that didnt get me very far. Anyone had good success?

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djpaubes

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#333889 24-May-2010 09:49

bloody hell sorry guys I meant NTFS! No wonder I got no replies!

jonherries

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#333895 24-May-2010 10:02

Hi,

There are a few options here:

* reformat the drive in something that both windoze and os x will read/write (ie. fat/fat32)
* get a tool that will read write ntfs in os x
* get some virtualisation software to run on a partition on the mac

#1 is probably the cheapest in terms of $ not in time though depending on how much you are talking about.

#2 is an ok choice, products include ?macdrive, there is also a fuse project port for macs (ingeniously named macfuse) with a ntfs package but it might be read only, and there are a couple of others (I think). Also HFS explorer will let you read mac disks in Windoze.

#3 parallels or vmware fusion have an fs interpreter built in (I think), the other option is the sun/oracle version called virtualbox which uses the macfuse driver.

Perhaps the easiest option would be to bung the usbs into a mates windoze pc and upload to dropbox?

Hope this helps.

Jon

djpaubes

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#333913 24-May-2010 10:30

Thanks very much. I might go down the VM route I think. fat32 rules out my 4gb+ files. Dropbox is king I must say. I am using SMB shares across my home network which is another way just a little bit more time consuming.

cheers,

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#333938 24-May-2010 11:10

Just install NTFS 3G and Macfuse. They're free and then you're fine to read/write to NTFS on Mac OS

djpaubes

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#333942 24-May-2010 11:12

I'll give that a whirl! Whats the speed like?

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#333946 24-May-2010 11:17

I don't notice any difference in speed between Windows and Mac copying to/from NTFS. It just works.

Buttonmash

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#333980 24-May-2010 12:19

What gehenna said. I use it without trouble also.

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djpaubes

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#334187 24-May-2010 19:26

I intalled macfuse and NTFS-3G at Tuxera. Tuxera had problems reading the disk and wouldnt mount. Are you guys just using the open source version?

djpaubes

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#334205 24-May-2010 19:58

Ahr I'm running in 64bit mode so it looks like it only likes 32bit.

Aaroona

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#342456 16-Jun-2010 21:29

I use this: http://whine.fr/2010/slntfs-2-0-0-out/ - works well. SL has an NTFS driver built in.

EDIT: forgot to add, it works fine in 64bit.

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