

(Those who use iTerm2, I bet they know how to open it :D)īefore we start on, MAKE SURE that your USB stick, external HDD, has single name to it, or better yet without spaces in name! e.g.

Click on ‘ Allow ’ button to allow install Paragon NTFS app. Go to ‘ System Settings ’ and ‘ Privacy & Security ’. Open dmg file and click Install Paragon NTFS for Mac. The other way is in your Finder Applications > Utilities > Terminal. Follow the steps to know how to use Paragon NTFS for Mac to enable read-write. Mac comes with experimental support that is used for writing NTFS drives. Experimental NTFS-Write Support by Apple. And free third-party drivers automatically mount the NTFS in a read-write which is considered to be as a security risk. Surely you guessed it, this will not go without console application in Mac this is Terminal, and some of us may us better one iTerm2, either way you’ll need to know how to open it.Įasiest way is to use Spotlight just hit Cmd + Space and write Terminal and here we go… Also, the free third-party drivers are a bit slower when in terms of performance compared to those paid ones.

Interesting point is that you don’t need to buy it is for free, you just need to geek a bit to make it writable. In here, run the following command to edit the. There are proprietary software like Tuxera that can enable to write to NTFS. First ensure that your NTFS drive has a simple single-word name, and then go to the Applications > Utilities folder and launch the Terminal program. By default Mac OS X Mavericks (same goes for older distribution) has Microsoft file system NTFS read-only.
