Timeline for What OS X tweaks, hacks, or modifications couldn't you live without?
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| Oct 31, 2011 at 6:17 | comment | added | Fake Name | @iskra - Uh What? No. The NTFS functionality is built around the same NTFS driver linux uses, and FUSE. NTFS is a well-understood filesystem. NTFS-3G and Tuxera NTFS are in no way "a hack". | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 15:16 | comment | added | TCSGrad | Interesting links - but almost no one I know using Windows uses exFAT, and I can't simply reformat all HDDs of all my friends who need to share my movies / data :). Also, the "hack" that can ruin data is mostly the ntfs-3g solution - I've never heard of Paragon's tool giving such errors on any of its reviews (though I'll keep that in mind while moving precious data). | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 14:51 | comment | added | iskra | NTFS write driver for Mac OS X is a hack that can ruin your data. Happened to many people many times. And yes you need to reformat for exFAT. Windows XP (32 and 64) have support for exFAT after a patch. More on exFAT is here — en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Support_on_other_platforms. And here is more on how I'm overcoming compartibility issues that may arise — apple.stackexchange.com/questions/8372/… | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 14:38 | comment | added | TCSGrad | @iskra - I didn't really get you. I have 3 1 TB HDDs on NTFS - how would using exFAT help me, without having to reformat all my HDDs (and have to deal with removing and restoring the data in each case) ? Also, is exFAT supported on WinXP - a lot of ppl I know do use it still, and I need my HDDs to be universally usable. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 13:41 | comment | added | iskra | I would recommend exFAT as a natively supported over this hack anytime except when you just can't because of some obscure reasons. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 7:24 | comment | added | TCSGrad | I was talking about OS X Lion, which has read-only access by default. Though the free solution (NTFS-3G) is reported to work (see shallowhacker.blogspot.com/2011/08/…), I've read about intermittent errors, and hence went with the bug-free solution. | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 6:23 | comment | added | Robert French | As per my comment above ... NTFS support (OS X 10.6) hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382 | |
| Oct 27, 2011 at 6:22 | comment | added | Robert French | Um, forgive me if I'm missing something here but this is natively supported in OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and I beleive Lion as well ... there is a minor hack to be made to your fstab file but I didn't need to purchase anything to get NTFS support. link hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090913140023382 | |
| Oct 26, 2011 at 17:20 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Kyle Cronin | ||
| Oct 26, 2011 at 15:02 | history | answered | TCSGrad | CC BY-SA 3.0 |