Today we’re going to introduce iNTFS, which we like to define as the killer app for having NTFS support on Mac OS. No installation processes, no struggling with Terminal: just a little application that will enable native NTFS write support included in Snow Leopard with a simple click.
You won’t need anymore to install (and buy) softwares such as MacFUSE, ntfs-3g, Paragon NTFS which implement this feature in user-level space, instead with iNTFS you can enjoy a kernel level implementation even for Uncle Bill formatted disks.
In order to avoid any conflict, we suggest you to remove other software with the same purpose. For the same reason, if you have it, delete the file /etc/fstab. Then you can simply open iNTFS and double-click on the Enable icon.. and.. boom! Everything works.
Since the applications works only if launched from the disk image, we suggest you to keep the DMG file just in case you want to disable iNTFS.
After enabling iNTFS, unmount and remount every NTFS disk in order for it to work properly.
If it occurs that Mac OS still works in read-only mode, it is likely that you umounted that disk unproperly before. Don’t worry: simply connect the drive to a Windows machine, then safely remove it as Windows suggest. This will restore all the properties correctly.
You can download iNTFS here
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Cancellare il file fstab non è pericoloso?
al primo riavvio non si rischia che snow leopard non riconosca hd e partizioni
e magari permessi utente e quote disco?
No stai tranquillo.. Mac OS non é Linux.. ha il suo modo per riconoscere le partizioni, tanto é vero che fstab nemmeno esiste se non lo hai creato tu a mano per montare partizioni NTFS.
Comunque puoi sempre fare un backup di questo file per essere sicuro.
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im using intfs for 2 months… im reporting strange behaviours…files missing, files not showing up but still usable trough “recent files…” i’ve lost 200gb of music with this.
anyone else having the same problems?
I heard of other people having issues with the Snow Leopard native support. It happens with large hard disks especially when not unmounted properly. We hope Apple is going to fix this feature..
Doesn’t work for me. I click enable and the program seems to just quit and can’t write to the NTFS volume.
Am I doing something wrong? I thought it was just a matter of double clicking enable and disable.
After you enable it, unmount and remount your ntfs drive.
It works only on snow leopard. If it still doesn’t work, try to fix ntfs permission on the disk from a windows machine by safely unmount the volume
I won’t be connecting the disk to a “Windows machine”, because it is the internal drive of my MacBook. Windows 7 is installed on a 200GB NTFS partition of my MacBook’s internal HDD. I currently use “NTFS For Mac”, bit I want to know a bit about your product.
Q1: Must I “Enable” at each and every startup?
Q2: Have you tried Startup Disk pane of System Preferences after “Enabling” with iNTFS to see if a large (over 32GB) Windows 7 volume is a choice as a Startup Disk?
Hi Lance, welcome on our blog!
Here’s the answers:
A1: No, once enabled it will work continuosly until you want to disable it, no matter if you reboot you Mac.
A2: I don’t think it will be set as a choice for Startup Disk since it is not in HFS, and anyway I suggest NOT to use iNTFS for internal volumes since it unlocks the Snow Leopard kernel support that is still unstable. It works well if you have to use it with external dongles, but I don’t think it is too much reliable to be used with a large partition on your internal hard disk. I think you should stay on NTFS For Mac or Paragon NTFS for that..