Ntfs for mac version 14 install#

No RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual) required. After the reboot I found out that the NTFS partition was mounted as NTFS-3G. I was ready to pull out my *NIX knowledge in order to manually mount the NTFS partition that I have on this test machine after the driver installation, but I rebooted first, even though the package didn't required this.

The NTFS-3G installer did its job for me.

Ntfs for mac version 14 install#

You need to install this package first before actually installing the NTFS-3G package. If you don't have a FUSE-compliant system installed, then you can find one within this package. The developers of the NTFS-3G driver said that they will fix the performance issues. The developer said that you can mount even USB devices that are formatted as NTFS, but in fact this driver makes your hard drive to work with the speed of a slow USB device. Besides the fact that the mounted NTFS drives won't support the native access rights that were implemented into this file system, and the compression support, the writing speed on this drives is quite slow. NTFS-3G (3rd Generation) is currently safe, but it has an issue. This is the first NTFS driver that provides write access to NTFS devices and it is considerate to be a safe one. I must say that I've been waiting this first stable version for quite a while. NTFS-3G is a FUSE compliant file system driver that enables write access to NTFS formatted partitions or devices.