AppleNova Forums » Third-Party Products » MacFUSE: FUSE for the Mac! NTFS-3G, a piece of Open Source software originally developed for Linux. NTFS-3G is a freely and commercially available and supported read/write NTFS driver for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, NetBSD, Solaris, Haiku, and other operating systems.

The latest release candidate of, our high performance commercial NTFS driver is now out! System requirements: A Mac (Intel or PowerPC) running Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6. You can purchase a license for Tuxera NTFS for Mac in the. Changes since: • Feature: Implemented automatic translation of characters that Windows Explorer considers invalid. These characters are now replaced with Services for Mac mappings ().

• Change: The kernel portion of the driver has been further optimized for the 64-bit kernel (feedback is much appreciated). Notepad for the mac. • Bugfix: The amount of free disk space wasn't updated properly in Finder at all times (affects Mac OS X 10.6).

• Bugfix: Resource fork handling didn't conform fully to Mac OS X's expectations, leading to buggy behaviour in some programs. All users are welcome to discuss any NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS-related issues on the. Customers are encouraged to use our email support address to report problems.

See your activation email for the address. TUFS source code.

The latest release of, our high performance commercial NTFS driver is now out! System requirements: A Mac (Intel or PowerPC) running Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.6. You can purchase a license for Tuxera NTFS for Mac in the. Changes since: • Bugfix: Reenabled the 'create time' for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. • Bugfix: Fixed an issue where Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 produced an error while trying to save projects to an NTFS volume. • Bugfix: Worked around an issue with copying certain files containing unusually large extended attributes.

All users are welcome to discuss any NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS-related issues on the. Customers are encouraged to use our email support address to report problems. See your activation email for the address. TUFS source code. What's new since: • All in. The development of NTFS-3G for Mac OS X is funded by Download: • • System requirements: • Mac OS X 10.4/10.5/10.6 (10.6 requires that you do not use the 64-bit kernel), running on an Intel or PowerPC computer.

The package has been tested with Mac OS X 10.4.11/PowerPC, Mac OS X 10.5.8/PowerPC and Mac OS X 10.6.4/Intel/64-bit Intel. NTFS-3G includes and depends on. Information on how to install and use NTFS-3G for Mac OS X can be found in the. If you are having problems with NTFS-3G, then please write a forum post explaining your problems in the (or post the question as a blog comment if you're just unsure of how things work).

Known issues: • After installing ntfs-3g, all NTFS drives will disappear from the 'Startup Disk' preference pane. Disabling or uninstalling ntfs-3g brings them back.

It seems that this issue can't be solved, but only worked around since the Startup Disk preference pane doesn't recognize file system drivers that are not provided by Apple. Possible workarounds: • Holding down the Option key during boot (or Alt for non-Apple keyboards). • Intel users only: Install the for better control of the boot process. • Using the command line utility bless (see man bless for more information) Many of you have probably noticed that we now have a commercially supported counterpart to NTFS-3G,. Tuxera NTFS for Mac builds on the reliable NTFS-3G code base, but has several premium enhancements. The most important one is the new high performance caching layer which makes Tuxera NTFS at least twice as fast as cached NTFS-3G, but in many cases boosts performance even more (see: ). The Tuxera NTFS for Mac caching layer also eliminates the need to choose between safety (in the event of a power outage or system crash) and performance, which is a choice you'll have to make in NTFS-3G.