[X4U] Can't Write to USB Drive

Neil lists at mac.com
Wed Sep 22 21:23:41 PDT 2010


>From what I could tell, MacFUSE alone doesn't allow you to write to NTFS volumes.  Check the links below from my earlier email.

On Sep 22, 2010, at 5:52 PM, Conlon Brett wrote:

> During the installation phase there are a number of things you have to do (from memory - it was a while ago). I was having troubles with one part of the installation where it looked like it had installed but perhaps didn't. In the end I just couldn't get an NTFS volume to mount without it being write only. I gave up...
> 
> Coj
> 
> On 23/09/2010, at 12:39 AM, Neil wrote:
> 
>> What were you trying to get it to do?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 20, 2010, at 6:48 PM, Conlon Brett <brettnlis at bigpond.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> For some reason I couldn't get MacFuse working...



On Sep 20, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Neil wrote:

> I did some Googling and found that I also need an NTFS driver.  It costs money after the 15 day demo, but I seem to be writing to that NTFS volume now.  Many thanks.
> 
> http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/how-to-read-and-write-ntfs-windows-partition-on-mac-os-x.html
> 
> http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/



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