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Best free App to write on NTFS ? And vice verse ?

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bo-waleed

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Also, Is there a way to make windows machine read/write on MacOS Journaled ?
 
Slartibart said:
Mounty
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Mounty is not a "free App to write on NTFS", Mounty is a shim that un-mounts then re-mounts the drive read-write using the kernel NTFS support. Think about Apple not enabling that by default, think about all the caveats on the Mounty page, then decide if you want to trust your data to it.
 
dwfaust said:
Paragon works fine... but it's not free...
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I'd be wary of a free solution. A disk driver that writes to a disk can very easily corrupt the whole thing. Personally I'd want to use a widely used (tested by many) driver such as Paragons' which is supported by a well known vendor.
 
posguy99 said:
Mounty is not a "free App to write on NTFS", Mounty is a shim that un-mounts then re-mounts the drive read-write using the kernel NTFS support. Think about Apple not enabling that by default, think about all the caveats on the Mounty page, then decide if you want to trust your data to it.
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I do. No problems. Fits the OP.
 
HDFan said:
I'd be wary of a free solution. A disk driver that writes to a disk can very easily corrupt the whole thing. Personally I'd want to use a widely used (tested by many) driver such as Paragons' which is supported by a well known vendor.
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agreed... but why are you quoting me?
 
Paragon HFS likes to destroy HFS partitions (google it) so i wouldn't use it.
 
saudor said:
Paragon HFS likes to destroy HFS partitions (google it) so i wouldn't use it.
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That is a Windows product for writing HFS+ for a mac. We're talking NTFS on a Mac. In the years I've used it never heard of any problems with it.
 
HDFan said:
That is a Windows product for writing HFS+ for a mac. We're talking NTFS on a Mac. In the years I've used it never heard of any problems with it.
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OP asked about writing on Mac HD from windows in a later post though. Anyways, NTFS on a Mac should be fine. Just don’t use any implementation that hacktivates the built in NTFS write support as that’s pretty unstable
 
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