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DESCRIPTION
NTFS-3G for Mac OS X is a read-write (finally) NTFS file-system driver. This means we can finally write to memory sticks larger than 4GB (formatted with NTFS).
I have created a package similar to shadowofged's original NTFS-3G package, providing better integration with OS X such as automatic mounting of volumes. It is loosely based on the old shadowofged package, but the binary-only components have been replaced by my own GPL replacements.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2009.11.14:
- New: Full file ownership and permissions support. The ownership and permissions of files are interoperable with Windows and conforms to the POSIX rules.
- New: POSIX ACL support. The ACLs are an extension to ownership and permissions as defined in POSIX.
- New: Optional Windows-type inheritance of ACLs.
- New: Full extended attributes support for all namespaces: user, system, security and trusted.
- New: Junction points support. The junction points and symbolic links created by Windows are seen as symbolic links.
- New: Access is possible to NTFS internal data like Windows style archive bit and file attributes. They are mapped to extended attributes for easier access.
- New: Compression write support: sequential writing to compressed files is supported.
- New: Support copying and restoring encrypted files without decrypting them.
- New: Support getting and setting high-resolution file timestamps.
- New: Support to get, set and remove DOS filenames.
- New: Tools for managing ownership, permissions and ACLs: ntfs-3g.secaudit checks the integrity of ownership, permissions and ACL, ntfs-3g.usermap gives help to configure ownership.
- New: Implemented setchgtime() on Mac OS X.
- Fix: Improved Windows junction and symlink handling.
- Fix: Improved ACL handling.
- Fix: Unicode normalization on Mac OS X.
- Fix: Implemented true fsync() on Mac OS X
- Change: Performance optimizations. Frequently used data are cached to improve speed. Space allocation for fragmented and sparse files has been improved.
- The 'legacy' build is now definitely dropped.
- The user can now choose at install time whether or not caching should be enabled, with a brief explanation of the benefits and drawbacks of using the ublio caching layer.
- Bugfix: Firefox was unable to save files to an NTFS-3G mounted volume because of missing 'setchgtime' implmementation.
- Bugfix: Mounting an NTFS volumes with a non-ASCII volume name led to an error message when mounting (though mounting did complete successfully).
- Bugfix: Formatting internal volumes didn't work because of Mac OS X shell script suid limitations.
- Snow Leopard fix: Uninstalling now works properly.
- Snow Leopard fix: Preference pane now has 64-bit code compiled into it, so that 64-bit Mac users won't have to restart the System Preferences application in order to use NTFS-3G's preference pane.
- Many smaller fixes that result from merging the Tuxera NTFS and NTFS-3G brances of several utilities.
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| NTFS-3G User Reviews (26 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 16 2009 |
GYNNY Works perfectly with my MacBookPro (10.5.6) and my old PPC (Dual G5 also with 10.5.6). As Ronald Price writes: be a little patient during mounting and unmounting. Sometimes I have to unmount twice because the finder says the drive would be still in use. (I don't know whether this is caused by NTFS-3G or the finder. This occurres also with fire wire drives.) The velocity during writing is o.k. (Seems to me as having increased since the last version?) Reading is more than fast enough for directly playing mpg files with vlc or quicktime! Thanks to all developers!
(Version 2009.2.1u1) | |
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| Feb 15 2009 |
RONALD PRICE Functionally this build of NTFS-3G does all I need. I tried both the stable and ulibio versions and both allow me to mount ntfs volumes as read/write. I was able to copy files from my Sawtooth G4 to all 3 ntfs drives I tried and read and delete them when I connected the drives to my Vista 64 bit system and vice-versa. While it does work it takes a while to mount ntfs volumes - an 8GB thumb drive took 8-10 seconds while a 1TB USB hard drive took 30-45 seconds. A 27GB USB HD was somewhere in the middle. Not a major problem but something to be aware of - if you are trying to use a large ntfs volume don't assume there is something wrong just because it doesn't mount immediately. Another time/nuisance eliminating tip - when un-mounting volumes from the Windows system try to remember to use the Windows "Remove Safely" command, rather then just unplugging the drive. This will save the hassle of having to deal with the warning and "Force/Abort" dialog from NTFS-3G. So pretty much just deal with removable drives on Windows as we already deal with them on the Mac and things will work a little smoother.
(Version 2009.2.1u1) | |
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 | Aug 21 2008 |
MBARSOOM I have formatted several drives with Disk Utility on 10.5 as NTFS and they are useable on the mac (read and write and disk utility reports that it is NTFS) but on a windows machine the filesystem cannot be read at all. In order to view them in Windows XP I have to reformat the drive on the windows box as NTFS and then the drive is usable in both Mac and Windows.
(Version 1.2812) | |
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| Dec 6 2008 |
NESSUNO As far as I know, this is still the best and simplest way.
(Version 1.5130) | |
 | Jan 30 2009 |
UNSOUND When formatting NTFS drives on the Mac you need to make sure you're using Master Boot Record as partitioning scheme, otherwise Windows won't recognize the drive. (GUID Partition Table may work in some cases too) Windows also has problems with NTFS file systems on memory sticks... they always have to be located on the first partition for Windows to recognize them. This is nothing that NTFS-3G can do anything about.
(Version 2009.1.1u1) | |
| Jan 4 2008 |
NEONBLUE2 I used to have this installed back when I had Tiger but never reinstalled it when I upgraded to Leopard. Well today a mate of mine came around with his virus ridden portable HDD, formatted as NTFS, that he wanted me to scan. After I installed NTFS-3G I could no longer mount the drive. I knew you need to unmount on Windows correctly (a hassle) for it to work but what about the viruses? We did it anyway and now I have full write access. Currently scanning with ClamXav and have so far seen one over sized ZIP file. There are more here somewhere. I wish there was, perhaps, a visual interface like a Preference Pane so I could easily turn NTFS-3G off and on easily without having to fire up the COMMAND file. Not being able to mount some drives because they were unmounted incorrectly can be annoying.
(Version 1.1120) | |
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| Dec 3 2009 |
PIRX It is hard to put down here why, it is just awesome and works like a charm for me.
(Version 2009.11.14) | |
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| Dec 7 2008 |
MEEGO Still great and working like a charm.
(Version 1.5130) | |
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| Sep 20 2008 |
ROOSTER It takes a long time to copy files in all the versions. About twice as long for large monolithic files and even more time if its a folder with lots of smaller files. Its probably because this is an implementation of an older NT version. The current NTFS 6 version is a pretty good with all the bells and whistles you would expect from a modern file system (to bad WinFS), but I doubt the NTFS-3G dev could get to that NTFS 6 level without grief from M$. Anyway, The site is not informative enough and says it allows you to use 4G+ USB sticks. Big deal...FAT32 will do it and you will get decent performance. The issue is really,,,really large files...say you want to save a big 7GB ISO of a movie/game/etc....You need Apple's HFS or you have to use NTFS...If you go the NTFS route be prepared for long file transfer times and some occasional stability issues. For me it is worth it because I have several external FW and USB drives that contain common data and must be accessed from both Mac and Win depending on the situation. I like the idea of this driver but there are some pitfalls...be prepared to accept lower speed and occasional weirdness.
(Version 1.2918) | |
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| Oct 12 2007 |
NONTROPPO Fantastic, I've had no problems and being able to write, while not blazing fast, it better than going over the network as I had to do before. Thank you for such a simple package, and to the NTFS and Macfuse teams.
(Version 1.1004u2) | |
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| May 30 2007 |
TIRASUS Works well (I use it to write to my windows partition). seems to leave extra files lurking around such as visible ds_stores and ._ duplicates occassionally when booting into xp, but that is very minor and easy to deal with. Is there any way to rename the mounted volume now on my desktop ('disk0s3' - made to write to the partition)? It's again very minor, as I had 'Untitled' originally anyway, but it would be nice.
(Version 1.516) | |
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| May 15 2007 |
IMRE FAZEKAS it's working! i had to connect my drives through usb to the xp than remove it in tray bar, and that's all! there is an issue about character coding. i'm using hungarian xp, and i can't read the files with names containing national characteres.
(Version 1.417r4) | |
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