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By Molly | Posted to NTFS for Mac on June 26th, 2018 |
NTFS file system is thedefault file system of Windows. For Apple Macs, however, it's only able to read NTFS drives, the feature to write to NTFS volumes is disabled. Luckily, we have a handful of free NTFS for Mac software with which we can read and write NTFS without any hassles. NTFS-3G is one of them and totally free. With the release of macOS Catalina and macOS Mojave, some users want to run NTFS-3G in macOS Catalina/Mojave and readread and write to NTFS drives in macOS Catalina/Mojave for free.
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IBoysoft NTFS for Mac is a nice alternative to NTFS-3G for macOS Catalina/Mojave. It is an effective NTFS for Mac tool that allows you to mount, unmount, read and write NTFS on macOS Catalina 10.15/Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13/Sierra 10.12 and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11/Yosemite 10.10/Mavericks 10.9/Mountain Lion 10.8. This topic will reveal 4 doable solutions to write to NTFS Drives in New macOS Catalina, Mojave and all other MacOS X versions. The new macOS 10.15 Catalina has been released and expected to be an outstanding OS which supports plenty of advantageous features. However, This new MacOS does not support writing to Drives (USB and External Hard drive) under NTFS format which is pretty familiar with.
But, does free NTFS-3G support macOS Catalina/Mojave?
No. NTFS-3G is an open source and cross-platform NTFS driver. But for macOS, it's only compatible with macOS 10.12 Sierra and earlier. The possible reason may be due to its developer - Tuxera, the same maker of the well-known Tuxera NTFS for Mac. The developer has put most of their time and effort to the paid edition, so it's very likely that they won't continue to upgrade NTFS-3G for macOS Catalina.
Are there any NTFS-3G for macOS Catalina/Mojave alternatives?
Tuxera NTFS for Mac is a commercial NTFS driver developed from the popular open-source NTFS-3G driver, which is a natural part of all major Linux distributions, and also has lots of users on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris, and NetBSD. Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac. Access, edit, store and transfer files hassle-free. Includes Tuxera Disk Manager for easy. Dec 24, 2018 Set up macOS Mojave and Sierra to be able to write to Windows NTFS USB and disk drives with fuse for macos and Homebrew's ntfs-3g. Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by rebooting and holding down ‘command’ + ‘r’. The app make it possible for other software to extend the capabilities of the filing system such as ntfs-3g. IBoysoft NTFS for Mac is a nice alternative to NTFS-3G for macOS Catalina/Mojave. It is an effective NTFS for Mac tool that allows you to mount, unmount, read and write NTFS on macOS Catalina 10.15/Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13/Sierra 10.12 and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11/Yosemite 10.10/Mavericks 10.9/Mountain Lion 10.8. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera brings reliable read-write compatibility for all NTFS-formatted USB drives on your Mac. Try free for 15 days.
Unfortunatively, there's neither completely free NTFS-3G for macOS Catalina/Mojave alternatives, nor NTFS-3G for Mac alternatives for other Mac operating systems. But there're some paidNTFS for macOS Catalina 10.15 and macOS Mojave 10.14, such as Tuxera NTFS for macOS Catalina/Mojave andiBoysoft NTFS for Mac.
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iBoysoft NTFS for Mac is now able to support NTFS for macOS Catalina/Mojave. You can free download it to read write to NTFS drives in macOS 10.15/10.14.
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iBoysoft NTFS for Mac is a nice alternative to NTFS-3G for macOS Catalina/Mojave. It is an effective NTFS for Mac tool that allows you to mount, unmount, read and write NTFS on macOS Catalina 10.15/Mojave 10.14/High Sierra 10.13/Sierra 10.12 and Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11/Yosemite 10.10/Mavericks 10.9/Mountain Lion 10.8. It can not only mount NTFS volumes in read-write mode automatically, but also has a lot more useful NTFS for Mac solutions such as unmounting, ejecting, repairing or erasing NTFS volumes. Moreover, any external drives including SD cards, external hard drives, USB flash drives, etc. formatted with other files systems (except for APFS) can be reformatted to NTFS on Mac with iBoysoft NTFS for Mac.
Best NTFS for Mac - iBoysoft NTFS for Mac
- Read and write NTFS volumes on Mac
- Mount and unmount NTFS volumes
- Repair NTFS file system errors
- Erase data on NTFS disks
- List and open all attached external drives
- Reformat other file systems to NTFS
- Support macOS 10.15/10.14/10.13/10.12 and OS X 10.11/10.10/10.9/10.8
How to write to NTFS drive on Mac with iBoysoft NTFS for Mac?
Step 1: Download and install iBoysoft NTFS for Mac on our Mac.
Step 2: Launch iBoysoft NTFS for Mac and insert the external Windows NTFS volume on Mac.
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Step 3: Write to external Windows NTFS volume after getting notified that the drive has been mounted successfully.
Bonus tips to read write to NTFS for free if NTFS-3G for macOS Catalina/Mojave unavailable
There're two bonus tips to help you read write NTFS in macOS Catalina/Mojave for free.
Method 1: Reformat NTFS to exFAT.
exFAT works perfectly as a means to read, write and transfer files between Windows and Mac. But before reformatting, please makea backup of your data on the NTFS drive to avoid data loss. If unfortunately that happened, you can alsorecover lost data from formatted hard drives withiBoysoft Data Recovery for Windows oriBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac.
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Method 2: Use Apple's Terminal
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1. Plug an NTFS drive to your Mac.
2. Go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
3. Typesudo nano /etc/fstab and enter your password when prompted.
4. TypeLABEL=NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse, please replaceNAME with your drive name and press enter.
5. Press ctrl+o to write the information to file, then press Enter to save.
6. Press ctrl+x to exit the editor window.
7. Eject the NTFS drive and then reconnect it.
8. Go to Finder menu, type/volumes and press Enter, then you can drag and drop the NTFS drive to the sidebar where you can access it easier.
2. Go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal.
3. Typesudo nano /etc/fstab and enter your password when prompted.
4. TypeLABEL=NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse, please replaceNAME with your drive name and press enter.
5. Press ctrl+o to write the information to file, then press Enter to save.
6. Press ctrl+x to exit the editor window.
7. Eject the NTFS drive and then reconnect it.
8. Go to Finder menu, type/volumes and press Enter, then you can drag and drop the NTFS drive to the sidebar where you can access it easier.
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Please note though this is feasible to enable NTFS write in macOS Catalina/Mojave, it's complex and not recommended to average users.