Write to Windows NTFS partitions from your Mac OS with MacFuse and NTFS-3G

jaca101

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I just saw a Kiwinho tutorial that explains it very well and I'm going to explain it here in a summarized way.

  1. We download the MacFuse from the web http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
    Note: It seems that unlike what Kiwinho tells us about different versions for Tiger and Leopard, now there is only a single file that I suppose works for both systems.
  2. We open the DMG package, we execute the MacFUSE.pkg installer that appears… Continue… continue… continue… close.
  3. We down http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/ the file Corresponding DMG.
  4. We open the DMG package, we execute the NTFS-3G.pkg installer that appears… Continue… Restart.

Once we have restarted we can write to Windows NTFS partitions.


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  1.   javiquil said
    ago 16 years

    Well, I have installed it as you said and now the external hard drive does not detect me 🙁 (ntfs) before, it only let me read.

    and the worst thing is that I don't know how to uninstall macfuse and the ntfs-3g thing ... 🙁

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  2.   jack101 said
    ago 16 years

    Have you rebooted? I'm okay…

    To remove, type in a terminal:

    sudo /Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/uninstall-macfuse-core.sh

    To remove the ntfs-3g you have to open the dmg with which you installed it and run from the terminal sudo / path_where_the_dmg / Uninstall NTFS-3G.command

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  3.   javiquil said
    ago 16 years

    I have tried with the other file, which put (stable) and with that it already works fine.

    Thank you very much for the contribution!! 🙂

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  4.   Edu said
    ago 16 years

    Since I have the airport extreme, all my disks shared by it are as hfs, both from windows and mac computers I can write to them without problems.

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  5.   fatboss said
    ago 15 years

    Hello, I would appreciate if you could tell me how to uninstall,

    Thank you

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  6.   fatboss said
    ago 15 years

    Sorry, I was saying that the method indicated above did not work for me, any tips?

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  7.   fatboss said
    ago 15 years

    ok, solved, in case someone has problems to uninstall ntfs-3g, look for the following file on the net, which has an uninstall script:

    NTFS-3G_1.1120-stable-catacombae.dmg

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  8.   Miguel Angel said
    ago 14 years

    Has anyone noticed that disk writes go very slow with these tools? If you know how to solve this, please tell me.

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