Questions tagged [ntfs]
New Technology File System, a data format for storage devices under Microsoft Windows
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Using NTFS-3G to write to an external hard drive results in error code 100102
I have an external Seagate hard drive that is recognised and works on Windows computers but not on my MacBook Air which I am currently using. I am able to mount the hard drive in read-only mode but I ...
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Copying greyed out files between drives
I am trying to copy data from an external NTFS drive to an exFAT drive.
However, some files are greyed out and give me this error when I try to copy them:
One or more items in “IMGP0029.AVI” can’t be ...
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Unable to mount FAT32 drive on macOS: com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error -119930868
I have a USB drive that I formatted on a Windows system. I want to read the data on my Mac, which is using macOS 12 Monterey.
However, the drive does not mount when I plug it in. Using Disk Utility to ...
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Dealing with NTFS external drive on macOS
I want to use an external NTFS drive on my Mac.
I used paragon but since I changed my computer I don't have a license anymore and I would love to find a different method for using NTFS.
I read about ...
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Format a SSD from Mac OS Extended to NTFS
I have a SSD formated in Mac OS Extended, and I want to format it to NTFS because I will use it on Windows.
To do it, I installed Paragon. I rebooted my MacBook. I checked if the driver was actived, ...
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Why has the basic search function on external drives stopped working for one particular drive?
I use several NTFS external disks with my Catalina Mac (for PC file exchanges).
None of them are Spotlight-indexed, and that's fine as it is not necessary: macOS has no trouble seaching the disks ...
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Unable to mount external NTFS hard drive unplugged without safely ejecting ("timed out waiting to mount")
I have an external NTFS hard drive that I am trying to mount on my Mac. It was working fine until I inadvertedly unplugged it before properly ejecting.
I can see the disk with diskutil:
/dev/disk3 (...
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Can't see files in mounted drive, but space is occupied
I was trying to make my external NTFS drive writable on macOS BigSur and followed a post, so I wrote the following commands:
sudo umount /Volumes/Untitled
sudo mkdir /Volumes/Mount
sudo mount -t ntfs -...
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unable to find Paragon NTFS for Western Digital(WD) external drives
I have had Paragon NTFS 15's free version for Western Digital Drives. Just like Seagate offers. Somehow I had to erase my MacBook Pro and the software has been deleted. So now I am unable to find it ...
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Folder on external, NTFS formated, drive empty after mounty and fstab changes
I have Mojave installed on Mac and an external NTFS formatted hard drive.
a) tried to get writing permission via the terminal
sudo nano /etc/fstab LABEL=NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
b) installed ...
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Error while disabling csrutil on macOS Catalina
I've tried to disable csrutil on Catalina by booting and repeatedly hitting EDIT: cmd+R. I've run the terminal and disabled csrutil.
I get the error "failed to modify system integrity ...
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How do I clone an installation of Windows 10 from macOS?
I have an external SSD which has a working copy of Windows 10 on it. I would like to transfer this copy of Windows 10 onto a different SSD. However, I do not currently have access to a Windows ...
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Create a bootable NTFS drive on mac
I have a working MacBook Pro as well as an old Dell laptop with no OS installed whatsoever. I'm giving the old laptop to a friend and I bought a Windows 10 license to install for them. The problem is ...
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Using a 2TB SSD on a 2016 MacBook Pro
My MacBook Pro was filled up by old iPhone backups. I need to clear them up before I can use it to do backup for the 4th phone of my family. I found I had a 2 TB external SSD and tried to copy things ...
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How do I write to NTFS drives in OS X?
What is the best, easiest, preferably cheapest way to make OS X write to NTFS-formatted drives in Mac OS X?
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How to enable NTFS 3G? [duplicate]
It is a common issue Mac users, when you try open NTFS external storage you allowed only read mode. And of course there are some solution. One of them it is NTFS 3G - free alternative.
I followed ...
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Changed /etc/fstab, now stuck in login
I changed the /etc/fstab file on my MacOS X Catalina in order to be able to write to NTFS hard drives. I opened the file in nano from Terminal and added the following line
LABEL=drivename none ntfs rw,...
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How to write on FAT32 and NTFS from Mountain Lion? [duplicate]
What is the best free software for OS X Mountain Lion for enabling write support for FAT32 and NTFS?
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Trying to disable “ignore ownership” option on NTFS partition, not much going right
Cloned a Boot Camp partition from my old Mac with dd (both thus being NTFS), but, unlike the original, it does not show in the boot menu. Research suggests this is because ownership is disabled.
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External HDD listed in call to diskutil, but not in Disk Utility ot Finder
My question is similar to this one, except that my HDD does not appear in Disk Utility, nor Finder. The drive fell about a foot onto the floor. After that, I connected it, it mounted, and I started to ...
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Copy single file with I/O errors
I would like to copy a file from one disk (HDD with filesystem NTFS) to another (SSD with ExFAT, if it matters).
The problem occurs in the middle of the copy process, showing me the following message:
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Mount FAT32 partition (external drive) on Mac
I have an external disk drive of 2TB with two partitions, one NTFS and another with FAT32 format.
The NTFS partition is automatically mounted when i plug the device using Paragon NTFS but I don't ...
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Drive boots but isn't "located"
The APFS drive I'm writing this text from cannot be located by macOS High Sierra. Everything that needs it misses whatever link is necessary to get to it. I can boot, I can use it, I cannot "find&...
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Finder cannot see any files on NTFS mount
I installed osxfuse and ntfs-3g and it worked well till today to read NTFS partitions.
Since today, after brew upgrade yesterday, Finder cannot see any file in NTFS root or folders, though they show ...
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What filesystem to use for a 10 TB drive connected to router with DD-WRT and Mac?
I am going to connect a hard drive to my router and let the router share the drive through SMB. The purpose is to backup my computers using Time Machine.
I realise that if I ever need to restore a ...
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Restore a NTFS volume back up by Disk Utility
I have a Windows installation which I created with Bootcamp. Then I need to expand the volume to add more Software. So I use Disk Utility to create a DMG image for the Bootcamp volume. But after I ...
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NTFS-3G auto-mount arguments and disk utility
I setup NTFS-3G on MacOS Big Sur 11.2 and replaced the default ntfs_mount with NTFS-3G. However, I noticed a problem. Every time I plug in a NTFS I don't see any files show up in finder (but they do ...
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How to format a disk to NTFS using Mac OS X
I am looking for a simple GUI based way to format drives to NTFS (Windows) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
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Copy with Finder from external HDD to MacHDD(data) fails with zero byte entry and no warnings or copy dialogue
I have an old NTFS backup disk (simple copy) used 2007-2014. Disk File system is OK. I can open the files (Canon raw images) from the HDD using applications on the Mac so the Mac talks to the HDD.
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How to unblock an NTFS volume from mounting? [duplicate]
Today I was no longer able to mount an NTFS volume (external HDD) that I use on a daily basis. I had the "Unformatted disk" error, prompting me to initialize (reformat) it.
After scanning ...
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How do I uninstall Tuxera NTFS?
I wanted to remove the NTFS support I installed using Tuxera NTFS. When I checked out my preference pane, the option seems to have been greyed out. How do I uninstall it now?
I tried disabling it but ...
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Cannot Write to Bootcamp After Installing Paragon NTFS for Mac
I ran a Windows 10 operating system on the bootcamp of my macbook pro 2015. However, after using that Windows system for a few years, it failed to boot (stuck at the logo) after an upgrade. I searched ...
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Mounting NTFS drive in read-write mode
I have a Seagate hard-disk which is formatted as NTFS in Windows and I use it regularly in Windows. I followed this article to install Paragon NTFS for mac and during the trial period I was able to ...
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How can I view hidden files in the Finder?
I noticed that whenever I add files and delete them, their physical space remains on the disk drive. I uninstalled NTFS Tuxera and I still have the same problem.
So I had to insert the disk under my ...
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State of NTFS Support at OSX 10.9.5
I acquired an external hard drive that came preformatted with NTFS. My MAC quietly mounted it read only. After some conversations with google, I discovered that MAC couldn't write NTFS by default, but ...
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is Windows not supporting NTFS Bootcamp?
So I couldn’t seem to partition my Late 2013 Mac with Bootcamp to run Windows 10.. it would just continue to show the partition part of the step for hours and hours. I became pretty sure it wouldn’t ...
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dd cloned NTFS partition will not boot from flash drive
I have a MacBook Pro with OS X 10.10 and a Windows 7 Boot Camp install.
I just bought a 64 GB flash drive that I would like to put a bootable copy of Windows on, to reestablish the hard drive as OS X ...
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External drive's files not showing, but I know it has been half-filled with data. It works fine on Ubuntu but not on macOS?
My external hard drive used to work just fine (my OS is Mojave) - I can read and write because I used NTFS Paragon software free trial. But now that I wiped all traces of said software, my external ...
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How to fix external hard disk NTFS READ ONLY? [duplicate]
On reinstalling MacOS Mojave, my NTFS hard drive became read-only. Previously, before reinstalling the OS I used to use applications like NTFS for MAC to be able to Read and Write on the disk, however ...
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Boot Camp Assistant stuck on creating partition due to EFI formatted as NTFS
Boot Camp Assistant is stuck on ‘create a partition’. I have followed the guide as answered in the question Boot Camp Assistance is stuck on create a partition? but it didn't work after step 8. After ...
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How to remove unmounted drive folders from root directory
Recently I have noticed that in the / directory, there were a lot mounted volumes from my old NTFS drive (which I haven't been using for a long time). Several failed attempts to delete them are listed ...
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Write in NTFS using Mavericks [duplicate]
I was able to read and write NTFS filesystems normally in Mountain Lion, but after the upgrade this stopped to work.
I installed ntfs-3g and fuse4x using homebrew in Mountain Lion and followed the ...
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Macbook Pro with Bootcamp and shared partition?
I just got a Macbook and want to install Bootcamp to have access to some Windows only VST plugins. I want to use both platforms to continue making music. As I have tons of GB of audio project files I ...
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File lock kept opened even after closing the file, co-editing gone for toss in my Enterprise
The latest macOS 10.14.x and macOS 10.15.x have degraded their behavior with Word applications on network drives mapped via SMB. These network drives are shared drives on the Windows 2019 file server ...
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How to create exFAT or NTFS RAID 1
I am looking for a way to create a RAID 1 Volume from macOS Sierra with a format that will be readable from both Mac and Linux.
Using DiskUtility I can not seem to find a way to format the RAID in ...
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An NTFS HDD'e R/W (Read/Write) speed becomes super low on macOS Catalina
I have a 1T WD Elements HDD formatted in NTFS that I use between Windows and macOS. On my macOS Catalina I replaced the Finder’s default NTFS driver with ntfs-3g by Tuxera, and I also have NTFS for ...
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Seagate External Hard Drive locked, can only read not write
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I plugged in my Seagate backup hard drive today (not Time Machine) after a few months and my computer can read the drive but not write to it.
Two obvious problems:
1) The drive is ...
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Can there be problems copying files from AFPS to other file systems?
I have a simple question: I bought a NAS from Synology and I copy my files from macOS (my filesystem is AFPS) to the NAS with Samba, formatted in ext4. Sometimes I also copy files from AFPS to NTFS (I'...
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Enabling Time Machine for a USB HDD with NTFS
When I've plugged in my USB HDD (WD Passort Elite) for the first time, the system had asked me whether I want to use this HDD as time machine drive. I've chosen smth like 'decide later' and continued ...
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Disk encryption format for external drives that works on both macos and linux
Is there any disk encryption scheme or format that can be used on both macos and linux?
Linux cannot read Apple's drive encryption format, and LUKS is not supported on MacOS.
I tried using VeraCrypt ...
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