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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.Its easy to stop programs
Its easy to stop programs opening on startup, search and you'll find the way to do it
 
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.

A lot of system utilities like that run at startup - it's not like it takes a lot of memory to run. Also it's easy to quit it once open...
 

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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.
in the NTFS app settings, go to the "NTFS for Mac Menu" section, click "off" and uncheck "launch on system startup." At least with the paid version, the NTFS app doesn't autostart after that, but the functionality of the product still works.
 
Thanks for the heads up, dmccloud and chrfr. Though it is simple, I don't like the app behaving like this.
 
In the new update i can't see our External Seagate Drive

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but if i mount from Disk Utility, — appears a error

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everything works fine before the update 13.3
 
In the new update i can't see our External Seagate Drive
Can't see it or it isn't mounted? If you mount it from inside Paragon does it mount?

You might check in Security and see if the update has disallowed their kernel module.
 
Can't see it or it isn't mounted? If you mount it from inside Paragon does it mount?

You might check in Security and see if the update has disallowed their kernel module.
Can't be mounted cuz an error shows up. In Security settings nothing happened.
It just works before the latest update. Reinstall doesn't help much.
 
Also, disable Paragon so the kernel driver takes over and then plug in the drive. Does the kernel mount it read-only?
 
For me, Sysgeeker NTFS for Mac is quite amazing for writing NTFS. No complex staff and the UI is clean.
 
My Seagate One Touch Hub 14TB worked great right out of the box I loaded its operating software from Seagate and My Studio mounted it without a hitch. The drive is formatted in exFAT with can be read by both Mac, and PC.
 
My Seagate One Touch Hub 14TB worked great right out of the box I loaded its operating software from Seagate and My Studio mounted it without a hitch. The drive is formatted in exFAT with can be read by both Mac, and PC.
No additional software is required to use exFAT on Mac, so whatever software you installed is probably not doing anything. exFAT is also not a particularly reliable format, lacking journaling and other features built into NTFS and APFS.
 
No additional software is required to use exFAT on Mac, so whatever software you installed is probably not doing anything. exFAT is also not a particularly reliable format, lacking journaling and other features built into NTFS and APFS.
Yes I know that. I have about 9 TB of media files spread among 6HDD's and 5 SSD's from the old full tower PC they are in securely stored in an armoured case. A new monitor comes first right now the Seagate buys me some time. I plan on getting an NAS so I can use both the Mac, and the PC with it.
 
A question; If I got a depicted APFS external HDD would my Mac Studio convert exFat files to APFS if I copied them over from my Seagate Hud. I have long experience with my PC's but macOS is new to me.
 
The next question is about external drives. I am looking at drives that have Thunderbolt connectivity they do not specifically say they are formatted in APFS. Am I to assume that a Thunderbolt external drive will be seen, and if needed formatted for APFAS by my Mac? These are noob questions but the Last time I had to deal with a new file system was the switch from FAT32 to NTFS and that was a simple inside Windows thing.
 
A question; If I got a depicted APFS external HDD would my Mac Studio convert exFat files to APFS if I copied them over from my Seagate Hud. I have long experience with my PC's but macOS is new to me.

exFat, NTFS, APFS, etc. are formats for the storage itself, not the individual files on the drives in question. The files themselves retain their filetypes regardless of the disk formatting being used. In other words, a Word doc on any of those file systems is the same file. The difference is in how data is indexed and located in those disk formats, not the data itself.
 
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I have answered My own question about the thunderbolt connectivity. If is has it than a Mac will see an APFS drive.
Thunderbolt has no relation to APFS compatibility. APFS was first rolled out in macOS Sierra so there are a few Macs that support APFS which don’t have Thunderbolt.
 
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