I only did this on my 1TB and 2TB Western Digital external portable hard drives. Also I did not try this on my Bootcamp partition as I wasn’t in the mood for surprises. It was completely formatted with Yosemite. NOTE: I did this on a Macbook Pro Retina with a fresh install of Mac OS Yosemite i.e the machine wasn’t upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite. The process is quite simple and flawless but as always you’re advised to backup your Macbook before proceeding should in case something goes wrong and results in data loss. While there are third party apps out there that can enable this function, they are somewhat of pricey thus my glee when last night I discovered that you could actually write to NTFS partitions on Mac OS X by just editing a simple file called fstab. Forgive me.Mac OS X by default doesn’t allow you to edit files on NTFS formatted drives be it an internal NTFS partition or an external USB flash/hard drive with NTFS format. I am so sorry for being such a bearer of bad news. This is a 2018 (the most updated) program. Yet I had paid $60+ for this piece of buggy crap. Just wanted to add - Tuxera sucks too! I watched a file literally (sizewise) go to zero bytes when I changed its filename.

The world isn't going to convert to HFS+ or whatever their newest file system is (which has caused me no end of hassles). Apple had better get down their high horse. There are simply too many NTFS files around. Yeah, right! If Apple doesn't come out with their own ability to read/write NTFS drives, I'm moving back to Microsoft. We will get back to you as soon as possible. At the moment we are unable to process your response in a timely manner, we apologize for the inconvenience. Oh, here's a typical response from my email: What a fricking nightmare! And support expects you to send them all sorts of generated system files in order to get a response! Temporarily setting an external drive to 'read only' permanently makes that drive read only unless you want to delete and reinstall the driver, or mess with fstab. The product expects you to shell out more money every couple of years.

Read and write to ntfs on mac