Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X US$29.95
No longer in beta, version 6.0 was released on 11/15. Why didn't anyone tell me? If this was FREE I would probably use it. Anyone try Paragon yet? They do offer a 10-day Free Trial.
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Thx for sharing.
I really wish apple would step up and licsense NTFS from M$ and fold it into the OS. But they didn't do it with Leopard, so, it's not going to happen.
Anything Apple can do to play nice in a mean cruel and evil Windows world only helps Apple.
Actually, I've been accessing NTFS shares using Fusion, but, it's not that fast. Works though. So -
Or Apple could just step up and write their own damn NTFS driver, like Linux devs did.
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My winter break project is to start researching a way to read/write ntfs in OS X. I doubt I'll really do anything major, but if I'm doing something I would have expected people who know more about this stuff to already have taken a whack at it. -
There's the MacFuse project.
I just have not had much luck with it. -
This is good news, I have been hearing good things about Paragon. Fortunately for me, I will be down to one Windows machine that I don't need direct access to, so hopefully I will have no need for something like this. -
I'm getting pretty sick of not being able to write to NTFS partitions on Leopard. I've read about MacFuse, but the install and setup process seems a bit convoluted and I've heard rumblings of slow performance. If MacFuse just isn't totally stable right now (and if anyone has it working perfectly, PLEASE let me know) then I'll seriously consider Paragon. Unfortunately Paragon NTFS is now $39.95(!), so I'm really curious to know if anyone here has tried it out.
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And that lovely little tool can corrupt NTFS drives. After having that happen on two of my drives, I'll never touch that again lol. But it took Linux a DAMN long time for them to even get that working. -
Holllownail: Paragon corrupted your drives?
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Sorry for sounding a bit dense but what is the issue and why would you need something like this? Is this an issue only with NTFS and not with FAT32? Also, if you install a Windows bootcamp partition with NTFS is there going to be a problem with that?
I just ordered a new Macbook Pro with Fusion and im trying to wrap my head around the whole transition. -
So what's the deal! Is this Paragon software any good?
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FAT32 is fine, there is full read/write support built into Mac OS X already.
Windows running on a boot camp partition can be either NTFS or FAT32, doesn't matter - Windows obviously has no problem writing to it. If you make it NTFS the partition will still show up in OS X and you can read/copy from it but you cannot write to it.
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Thanks for the input. Guess I'll stay away from it and continue to use FAT32.
Teacher
Paragon NTFS for Mac OS
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Xander, Nov 21, 2007.