{"id":76,"date":"2008-11-24T16:27:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2008-11-24T16:29:37","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T15:29:37","slug":"installing-a-ntfs-driver-ntfs-3g-on-mac-os-x-to-get-read-and-write-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/24\/installing-a-ntfs-driver-ntfs-3g-on-mac-os-x-to-get-read-and-write-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing a NTFS driver (NTFS-3g) on Mac OS X to get read and write access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The installation of a NTFS driver on Mac OS X for read and write access is actually covered on many websites, so I just write this entry to summarize the installation process and to write about my experience with the driver.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, you need to install <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/macfuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">MacFUSE<\/a>, which &#8220;makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X&#8221;. Download the dmg file from the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/macfuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/macfuse.googlecode.com\/files\/MacFUSE-1.7.dmg\" target=\"_self\">Version 1.7<\/a> at the time of writing), open it and run MacFUSE.pkg.<\/p>\n<p>Second, download the actual <a href=\"http:\/\/macntfs-3g.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NTFS-3g driver for OSX<\/a> &#8211; there are two version:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/catacombae\/NTFS-3G_1.5012-ublio-catacombae.dmg\" target=\"_blank\">NTFS-3G 1.5012<\/a> (from ublio), which is fast but unsafe<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.sourceforge.net\/catacombae\/NTFS-3G_1.5012-stable-catacombae.dmg\" target=\"_blank\">NTFS-3G 1.5012<\/a> (stable), which is slow for USB drives but safe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Open the dmg file and run NTFS-3G.pkg. Reboot is required. Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/hem.bredband.net\/catacombae\/ntfs-3g\/macntfs-3g_userguide.pdf\" target=\"_self\">NTFS-3G User Guide<\/a> about disabling the (unsafe) ublio caching overall or only for some drives. I&#8217;ll do some tests about speed later.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/macntfs-3g.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NTFS-3G for Mac OS X<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntfs-3g.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NTFS-3G Stable Read\/Write Driver<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The installation of a NTFS driver on Mac OS X for read and write access is actually covered on many websites, so I just write this entry to summarize the installation process and to write about my experience with the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macosx"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pnj-1e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miscdebris.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}