SL-NTFS is a preference Pane that allow you to enable writing on NTFS disks via the Apple driver.
A daemon is also available, it warns you when a NTFS disk is mounted and if writing is not enabled it asks you if you want to enable it, or can enable it automatically.
According to the dev it's untested and he doesn't plan on updating it anymore (although it may work). See his blog post here: http://www.cocoabyss.com/misc/lion-and-sl-ntfs/#more-322
An excellent addition would be a contextual menu item that would remount the selected drive as writable. It would certainly be easier than constant trips to the preference pane.
For that matter, PLEASE stop checking for updates on every launch of the prefpane. Nothing like waiting several seconds for an update check I didn't want.
Works Great on Snow Leopard (64 bit kernel) 10.6.2
Was able to write on both my NTFS bootcamp partition and an external NTFS drive, and with great speed
So glad this one works, FUSE and Paragon just never seemed to work for me, and this one is free to :)
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SL-NTFS is a preference Pane that allow you to enable writing on NTFS disks via the Apple driver.
A daemon is also available, it warns you when a NTFS disk is mounted and if writing is not enabled it asks you if you want to enable it, or can enable it automatically.
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MFBarry reviewed on 28 Sep 2011
Better, simpler, easier than the "Not Free" software that does the same thing.
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Diogo Cocharro reviewed on 26 Aug 2011
Alexsouzafa reviewed on 23 Aug 2011
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Facenormal reviewed on 10 May 2011
+12
Diogo Cocharro reviewed on 30 Dec 2010
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Nemods reviewed on 03 Mar 2010
Was able to write on both my NTFS bootcamp partition and an external NTFS drive, and with great speed
So glad this one works, FUSE and Paragon just never seemed to work for me, and this one is free to :)
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You're probably better off with MacFuse+NTFS-3G or Paragon NTFS, both of which are tested, reliable. Also Paragon NTFS has good performance I hear.
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Paragon has a long history of causing corruption.
Fuse is slow as hell and very limited.
This is a much faster and better than the alternatives.
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External 2TB drive.
Gregorsarrazin rated on 25 Feb 2012
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Rc5 rated on 18 Dec 2011
Ptigui rated on 28 May 2011
fabianosobreira rated on 11 May 2011
+3
Barisart rated on 07 Mar 2011