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I plugged in an external drive I have been using in my Windows computer to my MacBook Pro and I do not have write access to it. When going to the info pane, it says "read only access".
What is the best current NTFS driver of OS X? It should be …
I personally use Paragon NTFS for Mac. It costs about 16.95 per license, but I have yet to find a better driver for Mac and it's extremely easy to use. I have yet to have anything bad happen to any of the drive that I hook up to it. They recently added support for OS X 10.11 El Capitan!
Michael Dreher points out in the comments of the preceding osxdaily.com link:
(referring to this source code)
We only allow read/write mounts if the "nobrowse" option was also given. This is to discourage end users from mounting read/write, but still allows our utilities (such as an OS install) to make changes to an NTFS volume.
Without the "nobrowse" option, we force a read-only mount. Note that we also check for non-update mounts here. In the case of an update mount, ntfs_remount() will do the appropriate checking for changing the writability of the mount.if ((vfs_flags(mp) & MNT_DONTBROWSE) == 0 && !vfs_isupdate(mp)) vfs_setflags(mp, MNT_RDONLY);
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About Yosemite & El Capitan:
De says: September 10, 2014 at 10:10 am
If the other solutions don’t work – the following does a 100%:
mkdir ~/Desktop/Drive // where the drive will be mounted mount // will tell you the internal drive name, something like /dev/disk2s1 sudo umount /dev/disk2s1 sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk2s1 ~/Desktop/Drive Reply
Jo says:
The only solution that worked perfectly, thanks !gia says: Excellent solution, works for NTFS in OS X El Capitan and OS X Yosemite
I won't try to re-create it. Before starting, reading through the article and the comments, particularly with your version of OS X, would be good to do.
Make an NTFS folder (on the NTFS drive) to transfer into that has the least restrictive settings (read/write/update for everyone). Once you've had success you can try out more restrictive options.
There is confusion with users of OS X because apple removed their fstab file. You simply need to create one.
This solution can make all your NTFS drives automount the way you want.
This solution can also give you access to the rest of the powerful mounting features of fstab.
No 3rd party software.
This solution (controlling the fstab file) is very portable. Fstab itself is a very common standard in computing among *NIX machines, from UNIX, OS X, BSD, Linux.. and dates back to Unix V8 at the latest. (+ 31 years).
Fstab file detailed info and explanations (linux flavor).
This is a common third party solution.
Here are instructions on Ask Different
How-To Geek has a recent article on writing to NTFS that covers the current OS X version.
Options, summarised from the article, includes:
From experience, if you do not want to mess around with your system, paying some money and get Paragon NTFS is your "best" bet. Plug in your external drive and "it just works".
If you don't want to pay and is willing to "hack" around your system, try out the "Free Third-Party Drivers" or "Apple’s Experimental NTFS-Write Support" options in the article.
