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  1. Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2020.1 is free to download from our application library. The latest installer takes up 97.5 MB on disk. Tuxera NTFS for Mac lies within System Tools, more precisely Device Assistants. This software for Mac OS X was originally produced by Tuxera Inc. Our antivirus scan shows that this Mac download is malware free.
  2. Another option would be Tuxera NTFS for Mac. This tool costs USD 31.00. Plus, they can give you a free trial for 14 days. However, PowerMyMac and Paragon do the same things for more features or cheaper costs. How to Write to NTFS Drives for Mac For Free: Using FUSE for macOS. This is a free method that requires a bit of effort. Plus, it is less.

Our software is the only NTFS driver on the market to include support for NTFS extended attributes. You also get Tuxera Disk Manager, a companion app that makes it easy to format, check, and repair NTFS drives. Plus, NTFS for Mac works conveniently with dual boot or virtual machine set-ups.

Some questions that might come up

My NTFS disk disappears from Desktop when using Mounty

Unfortunately this is by design.
Mounty is using the Apple kernel driver. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu.

My USB stick will not re-mount. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this doesn't help.

This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.

Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!

This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance, like Paraogn Harddisk Manager or Tuxera Disk Manager.

Sometimes the files are grayed out and cannot be modified anymore.

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This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to the Manpage of xattr for further explanation. If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with ls -l@ <filename>, and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple.<attribute> <filename>, i.e.: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt

Unable to re-mount in read/write mode when trying to mount Windows 10 partition

If you try to mount a Windows System partition, Mounty might fail when Hibernation feature is enabled. There is a Fast Start feature in Windows which might be enabled by default, and this is causing the drive to be locked. Within Windows running, you need to run the command powercfg /hibernate off in an admin powershell and restart Windows to disable this feature and remove the lock to enable it for Mounty. Thanks to Art Schultz pointing that out.

Mounty will not recognize a drive or re-mount read/write even if the drive is NTFS formatted actually

We have seen that certain third-party NTFS tools will re-name the volume kind property of an NTFS drive to something other than 'ntfs'. In this case it might happen that the macOS kernel driver ist not able to re-mount in read/write mode anymore. Thanks to Giovanni for his patience to reveal this issue during a remote debug session :)

NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows, it is the modern file system Windows likes to use by default. As a a proprietary file system format for Windows, Mac OS X can only read NTFS drives by default, not write to them. Therefore, if you want to read and write NTFS drives on Mac, you need to use a third-party NTFS read and write software for Mac. There are some such software on the market, some of them are free software and some are paid software.

  • Mounty for NTFS: free, unstable and no technical support
  • OSXFUSE: free, complicated and no technical support
  • SL-NTFS: free, limited and no technical support
  • Paragon NTFS: Paid
  • Tuxera NTFS for Mac: Paid

Hasleo NTFS for Mac is another NTFS read and write software for Mac, it is totally free, reliable, stable and simple, most importantly we provide free technical support. If you are looking for software to full read-write access to NTFS drives on MAC, Hasleo NTFS for Mac is your best choice.

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Tutorial to downoad free NTFS for Mac full version to full read-write access to NTFS drives in Mac.

Step 1. Download, install and run Hasleo NTFS for Mac.

Step 2. Click on the icon on the Mac's status bar and select the NTFS drive you want to access from the pop-up menu, then click 'Mount'.

Step 3. When the operation completes successfully, the drive has been successfully mounted and you can see the icon of the driver on your Mac's desktop.

Step 4. Click on the icon on your Mac's desktop to open the drive, now you can access the NTFS drive like a Mac's native drive, such as read, write, copy, delete files, etc.

As mentioned above, you can free downoad the full version of Hasleo NTFS For Mac to mount NTFS drives and then full read and write access to NTFS drives in Mac OS X.

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