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NTFS write access on Ventura
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NTFS for Mac now working on Ventura with latest versions of both, no problem, as of Nov 10th 2022
I wasn't aware this might be an issue, upgraded to Ventura, and a day or two later I experienced a nightmarish crisis, with my 5tb itunes failing, all my trackers banning me, all torrents giving error codes and marked as missing, and completely unable to save anything to my many externals. What a hell. My itunes drive sounded like it wanted to blow up. Am currentil in the middle of a 20+ hour copy of my entire music drive to another external, just in case. NTFS for Mac crashes instantly. Afterwards will try to salvage this mess, starting with this page:
kb.paragon-software.com
How To Uninstall Older Version Of NTFS For Mac › Knowledge Base
Paragon NTFS for Mac may not work correctly if there are some traces of the previous version of the driver left in the system. Symptoms are ...
That's good to know! Please share any other links you found helpful as I am a bit of an idiot regarding this sort of thing.
Should I disconnect all my externals before beginning the NTFS for Mac removal? Or should I unmount them? Are there any components of the older versions on the drives themselves?
Also, one page on the Paragon site says "If the problem appeared after macOS update, please reinstall the driver." Unfortunately it doesnt describe where this is or how to do it, and I've been scouring the internet for hours trying to figure it out. It says this can be done from preferences window in the app, but the app will not open.
Should I disconnect all my externals before beginning the NTFS for Mac removal? Or should I unmount them? Are there any components of the older versions on the drives themselves?
Also, one page on the Paragon site says "If the problem appeared after macOS update, please reinstall the driver." Unfortunately it doesnt describe where this is or how to do it, and I've been scouring the internet for hours trying to figure it out. It says this can be done from preferences window in the app, but the app will not open.
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As it turns out, Paragon's customer service was unresponsive and their website was labyrinthine and full of impossible to implement directions. I desperately need to get back to work and they were zero help, so I uninstalled, purchased the Tuxera NTFS for Mac and successfully installed that. It does seem to work - torrents can be downloaded to externals again, etc, but I am finding it to be insanely, incomprehensibly slow.
Trying to open one single folder with 1000 images using Adobe Bridge can lead to a beach ball that lasts 10-15 minutes while it "generates thumbnails." As a photographer I have thousands of such folders and I often need to rapidly review work with clients. Is it going to do this nonsense every single time, or is it performing some sort of initial indexing function? Is this hell a working-as-intended part of using externals on a mac running OS Ventura? What exactly happens when you install a new NTFS for MAC system - is my systems FINDER slowly making sense of all this over the course of several days?
Trying to open one single folder with 1000 images using Adobe Bridge can lead to a beach ball that lasts 10-15 minutes while it "generates thumbnails." As a photographer I have thousands of such folders and I often need to rapidly review work with clients. Is it going to do this nonsense every single time, or is it performing some sort of initial indexing function? Is this hell a working-as-intended part of using externals on a mac running OS Ventura? What exactly happens when you install a new NTFS for MAC system - is my systems FINDER slowly making sense of all this over the course of several days?
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On a Windows PC I use an old program to do the same thing, however your problem is not with Ventura rather it is with Adobe Bridge. As in my Windows program, you need to look for the setting to disable creation of thumbnails automatically and enable the manual creation of thumbnails. This should then sort out your problems.
I had an older version of Paragon NTFS and extFS installed prior to Ventura. After the 13.0 was installed, they still both worked. Going through my apps I noticed that Paragon offered an update for Ventura and it totally borked my system. Can't read or mount NTFS, installer hangs, kernel panics, etc.
I did write to them and they sent me a pre-release version of NTFS (15.10.485). It works now, but seems to still have a few bugs:
Open the app from the top toolbar and it works OK. Quit the app.
See that the app appears in the bottom toolbar as a recently-used application. Click on it.
Bam! You are unregistered!
Quit it and open from the top toolbar
Zing! You are registered again!
Silliness aside, both NTFS and extFS are indispensable to me, and work great. I'm sucking every drop out of that lifetime support license deal I got - what? 8-10 years ago?
Just setup a Mac Studio. I have about 6TB of NTFS music and video files to read over to a new 12 TB Seagate hub formatted in APFS I was checking this thread for a read client to do the transfer. Has the Ventura issue been resolved if so which reader would you suggest?
I'm running the current version (15.10.559) and haven't come across the issues being described here.
Ventura seems to be stable and working, albeit with some occasional frustrating glitches and at a much slower pace than I would like. 3 months after the nightmarish debacle of Paragon NTFS, I'm STILL embroiled in reformatting drives and copying and backing up data
Hi, Using the Paragon NTFS driver here on a 2018 Macbook Pro with complete success.
I had to uninstall the previous attempts to get it working and downloaded the latest vesrsion from the Paragon website but it works for me.
Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software (15.10.559)
Currently running the latest beta and it works ok then
If all you need to do is READ an NTFS volume, you don't need to install any additional software. A third-party software is necessary if you need to *write* to an NTFS volume.
I called Apple support about this. They said Ventura lost the ability to do this. The only thing a Mac can do these days is format a drive to APFS. What I have decided to do is go to a NAS system and that ends the NTFS vis APFS thing. That way the PC I need to have will also have access to the same files.
I have a 14TB Seagate hub coming in today I'll just formate it to APFS and start using it on the Mac Studio.
Apple support is wrong. You can still read NTFS in Ventura without any add-on software. You can also still format disks as FAT32 and ExFAT.
Really! how do I do that. Yes I know about FAT32, and ExFat. I have not had to mess with this issue in years so I am way behind. It does not help when this Mac Studio is the first Apple I have had since an Apple II back in 1985. all I want to do is transfer what I have on 5 HDD's and 4 SSD's to the 14 TB Hub I have coming in today. There is a total of less than 7 TB, with a lot of duplication.
If you want to read an NTFS disk, just connect it to the Mac. I didn't say that you can write to an NTFS disk, however, because that's not possible.
No it isn’t, as far a I can tell all you can do with an NTFS drive with the Mac is reformat it to APFS. This Microsoft support thread is interesting. I am going to purchase the software. It will be a handy tool to have on hand.
How do you read and write NTFS drive on macos Ventura 13? - Microsoft Q&A
Hello, I have a Macbook pro running the latest macOS Ventura 13. I have an external drive that I need to read and write to that is formatted as NTFS. I have tried a few things but I can't seem to get it to work on my macOS Venture. Any help would be…
learn.microsoft.com
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This is absolutely not true. If there's data on it you need, you can read that NTFS disk on a Mac with no problem, which is exactly what the Microsoft forum thread you posted says. I do it regularly. If you need to be able to write to that disk, you need something like Paragon NTFS, which works well.
I've never heard of the "Sysgeeker" app before and would be cautious about using it.
The Paragon app is the most reliable option if you need to write to an NTFS-formatted drive. Reading from an NTFS drive does not require any special software.
I am not the fan for Paragon software after free trial. First, it opens up automatically when Mac reboots. This is very annoying. Second, it is not easy to close the app.
As transmaster suggested, the sysgeeker app seems more user friendly.
As transmaster suggested, the sysgeeker app seems more user friendly.