I’m at work needing to transfer files from my Mac to my NTFS hard drive. The file system normally allows the drive to be read but unable to write to. There’s too many complicated tutorials/forum posts so I’m making it simple for myself and hopefully others here. 2 downloads and no funky terminal stuff.
- Download MacFUSE on Google Code – Install & restart
- Download the MacOSX NTFS-3G plugin – Install & restart
Now the NTFS drive should be writable.
Notes:
If you get an error like:
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0)Failed to mount…
You need to plug in the drive into a windows pc and then “Safely remove hardware” by right-clicking on the lower right-hand green arrow that says “Safely remove hardware”. There’s other ways, but this is the easiest I’ve seen.
Most helpful forum link by jo7ker on Sat, Mar 3 2007 at 9:12AM PST