Writing To NTFS-Disk On OS X

Monday, July 7th, 2008
by Chris Pirillo

Gnomie rantom from our chat room writes:

Hi.

I’ve started to use OS X since last Friday (4th of July) and I did encounter a problem with it. So I decided to let you know about this so that you can tell this to other OS X beginners, in case you do see this helpful. Problem is known as “writing to NTFS-disk on OS X” and here’s solutions for it.

Go and download MacFUSE.
- Select .DMG that describes your version of OS X. There are versions for 10.4 and 10.5. This is required for the next tool to work.
Go and download NTFS-3G.
Now you just double-click MacFUSE (.DMG, usually downloaded files go to your username/Downloads/, e.g. Pirillo/Downloads) and install it; it does have instructions built into it.
Now you open NTFS-3G and install it.
Restart your OS X.

That’s it; now you have permission to write your NTFS-disk. Be warned though that you can’t copy from NTFS-disks folder which is named with Scandinavian alphabets (ä, ö, and å [a with two dots on it, o with two dots on it and a with a circle on it]). This is quite unnecessary information for those who do not have these alphabets in daily use. I recommend to type in only English for NTFS’s folders.

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