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Posted by Autumn X to NTFS for Mac on May 5th, 2017
When you are reading your NTFS drive on Mac OS X, you may want toshare files between Mac and Windows PC. However, attempting to drag a file into an NTFS drive on Mac OS X will only result in your mouse cursor turning into an error sign. That can cause a lot of problems to file management.
Fortunately, there are many NTFS for Mac utilities in the market and most of them are paid. But in the article, we have found out free NTFS for macOS or Mac OS X software, helping you read and write to NTFS drives on macOS and Mac OS X.
- Apple macOS can read the Windows-formatted NTFS drives, however, they cannot be able to write them out of the box. To Read/Write the Western Digital (WD) NTFS formatted file without reformatting it with exFAT, you must install the Paragon NTFS Driver for Mac. NTFS drives are generally reformatted with exFAT, to access it on the macOS and Windows.
- The NTFS-3G driver is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems.
Free NTFS for macOS and Mac OS X (not recommended!)
Here are four free NTFS for Mac software:Mounty for Mac,NTFS-3G, FUSE for macOS, SL-NTFS. Such free NTFS for Mac OS X software may help you write NTFS drive in Mac OS X or macOS. But free NTFS for Mac OS X or macOS software takes a bit of extra work.
Take NTFS-3G as an example. To make this free NTFS for macOS or Mac OS X software work, you have to install oxfuse, Homebrew, and install xcode. Further, you need to disable System Integrity Protection, re-enable System Integrity Protection, restart the Mac. It's not as easy as you can imagine, and may cause some problems to your macOS or Mac OS X. So we suggest you to use commercial NTFS for Mac OS X and macOS.
Commercial NTFS for /macOS and Mac OS X
Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 14.0.332 Final is a software for full read/write access to NTFS partitions under OS X used to eliminate the restrictions between Mac OS X and Windows operating systems and to facilitate the transfer of data for users with an environment with two operating systems. Easy-to-install application Paragon NTFS 14 Free Download adds support for the NTFS file system for Mac. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software provides blazing fast, unlimited read/write access to Microsoft NTFS hard drives, SSDs or thumb drives formatted for Windows computers! A no-brainer upgrade for those installing macOS 10.14 Mojave, Paragon NTFS for Mac remains the best cross-platform utility money can buy, especially now that it plays. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software provides blazing fast, unlimited read/write access to Microsoft NTFS hard drives, SSDs or thumb drives formatted for Windows computers! A no-brainer upgrade for those installing macOS 10.14 Mojave, Paragon NTFS for Mac remains the best cross-platform utility money can buy, especially now that it plays nice with Appleās new dark mode.
In this post, we will recommend you two reliable NTFS for Mac tools. Both of them won't cost you too much and have great performance.
1. NTFS Assistant - the cheapest NTFS for Mac in App Store
NTFS Assistant is a tiny and professional NTFS driver for macOS that enable us to read and write to NTFS drive on macOS Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13/10.12/10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8/10.7. NTFS Assistant has a very low price and can mount NTFS drive, transfer files with fast speed.
Guidance to download and use NTFS Assistant
Step 1: Download and install NTFS Assistant fromApp Store >>.
Step 2: Download and install NTFS Assistant Helper >>.
Step 3: Launch NTFS Assistant and connect a NTFS drive to Mac.
2. iBoysoft Drive Manager - mount NTFS drives, external drives and network drives
Read Ntfs On Mac Free
iBoysoft Drive Manager is a professional tool for Mac thatmounts your NTFS drive in Mac OS X and macOS as a regular drive with read-write mode, and enables you toread and write NTFS drive in Mac OS X and macOS.
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It is fully compatible with macOS 10.15 (Catalina),10.14 (Mojave), 10.13 (High Sierra), 10.12 (Sierra) and Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), 10.10 (Yosemite), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
It's wrapped in an intuitive interface and has simple options, making it accessible to all types of users, even those without prior experience in NTFS for macOS or Mac OS X software. After installing and launching iBoysoft Drive Manager and connecting your NTFS drive to Mac, it will automatically and safely mount your NTFS drive in macOS or Mac OS X as a regular drive with read-write mode. And you can manage your NTFS drive fast and intuitively from the menu bar.
Free Software To Read Ntfs On Mac
Besides, iBoysoft Drive Manager allows you to read/write exFAT, FAT, FAT32 drives. And it helps you to mount/unmount external drives and make network drives connected, available in your Mac. It will automatically and safely eject all external drives when the system sleeps and mount all network drives when system wakes from sleep. With only one click, you can mount, unmount, or eject all drives. And considerate notifications are given when network drive is connected, available, disconnected or an external drive is mounted, unmounted, remounted or unplugged safely.
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