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mustgroove
May 7, 2008, 04:13 AM
Quick question from a prospective Paragon customer... Neither the OS X NTFS driver nor ntfs-3g allow searching of NTFS partitions (i.e. searching a partition using the search pane in the top right hand corner of Finder windows)...

Searching HFS and FAT32 partitions is cool, but searching NTFS partitions just won't work...

Is searching possible with the Paragon driver?



JNB
May 7, 2008, 06:30 AM
That's the Spotlight window; it indexes the HFS-formatted drives, and as such, doesn't care what utilities are in place to allow you to write to an NTFS volume.

Remember, you have always been able to read NTFS from the Mac without any special tools, and Spotlight couldn't see them. All Paragon adds is write capability.

mustgroove
May 7, 2008, 06:47 AM
OK cool thanks... it's a shame that someone hasn't made a driver that allows Spotlight to search NTFS partitions too :(