If this free solution does not work for you there are always some paid apps to do the job, one that I have used previously is Tuxera NTFS for Mac which offers a 15 day try before you buy offer, works great, also there is Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon, this is also a try before you buy 15 day usage, I haven’t personally tried this one. That’s it, now all mounted NTFS drives can be written to, if it doesn’t work just disconnect/connect the NTFS drive and/or also do a full reboot. Link to the new sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Re-attach your NTFS drive brew install ntfs-3gĪt this point you need to change the mount_ntfs file, the new file will allow the writes to NTFS disks, these commands will back up the original and then link to the modified mount_ntfs file as supplied by Brew/ntfs-3gīack up the original sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.orig

You must reboot for the installation of osxfuse to take effect. Launch Terminal: Install ntfs-3g brew install -cask osxfuse The app make it possible for other software to extend the capabilities of the filing system such as ntfs-3g Install FUSE for macOSĭownload and install the latest FUSE for macOS, this will add a new preference pane but no configuration is needed. Reboot – (to enable it back after you finish the process see the link). You will be told System Integrity Protection is disabled Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by rebooting and holding down ‘command’ + ‘r’.įrom the menu bar click Utilities and launch a Terminal session and enter csrutil disable You’ll need to disable SIP protection which you then can re-enable again. Once you have Xcode and Homebrew the following will allow you to write to NTFS disks. To start with you are going to need Xcode and some Unix style application packages – and what makes this easy on is Homebrew, a package manager for macOS, follow this guide if you haven’t already got it, it will get you up to speed on both Xcode and Homebrew first, after that come back here and tackle the rest below which involves installing a couple of apps and tweaking a couple of files.įor Xcode you may have an older version you can prompt the updated tools installation with… xcode-select -install This has been tested in macOS Mojave and Sierra.

You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will make all NTFS drives writeable – there are also some commercial point and click apps that can get the job done if you don’t fancy wading into Terminal commands. By default, you can’t write to Windows NTFS USB drives and hard disks on macOS as they appear as read-only on the Desktop.

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