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Paragon MacBrowser Public Beta Testing (HFS for Windows)
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Dear Forum Visitors,
Thank you very much for your great feedback. We are planning to release MacBrowser by the end of this year. Your feedback was very useful for us to release a good product.
All beta testers will receive NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0 along with MacBrowser free of charge. I will let you know it later (after the release).
Sp0ng3B0b, starless and duxDuck thank you for your bug reports and suggestions. We will consider them to implement.
computerfreak, I am sorry for errors you have encountered. We almost have re-written the MacBrowsers code and will check these issues soon. Thanks.
If you still have questions please ask them.
I wish you have a very nice time during coming holidays.
Merry Christmas and joyful time.
Thank you again.
Best regards,
Anatoly.
Thank you very much for your great feedback. We are planning to release MacBrowser by the end of this year. Your feedback was very useful for us to release a good product.
All beta testers will receive NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0 along with MacBrowser free of charge. I will let you know it later (after the release).
Sp0ng3B0b, starless and duxDuck thank you for your bug reports and suggestions. We will consider them to implement.
computerfreak, I am sorry for errors you have encountered. We almost have re-written the MacBrowsers code and will check these issues soon. Thanks.
If you still have questions please ask them.
I wish you have a very nice time during coming holidays.
Merry Christmas and joyful time.
Thank you again.
Best regards,
Anatoly.
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I am testing this on a late 2008 Macbook Pro 2.8 running a fresh installation of Vista 32-bit SP2 and it just made the MBP hang (forcing me to do a hard power-off).
I copied the program directory of Ableton Live from the subdirectory "Macinthosh HD/AUDIO" to the Vista desktop when the hang happened.
Furthermore I noticed quite high CPU load (kernel load) while copying files (27% CPU load according to Task-Manager when the computer hang) and find copying files to be rather slow (250 gb, 7200 rpm drive, partitioned into two halves). Even worse, while the copy operation is running the Windows Desktop is not useable (colored circle mousepointer showing). That doesn't happen with even much larger copy operation from a local or a network drive.
Last but not least I find it very inconvinient that every sub-folder of "Macintosh HD" is opened in a separate window even when Explorer is not set to do that by default.
I copied the program directory of Ableton Live from the subdirectory "Macinthosh HD/AUDIO" to the Vista desktop when the hang happened.
Furthermore I noticed quite high CPU load (kernel load) while copying files (27% CPU load according to Task-Manager when the computer hang) and find copying files to be rather slow (250 gb, 7200 rpm drive, partitioned into two halves). Even worse, while the copy operation is running the Windows Desktop is not useable (colored circle mousepointer showing). That doesn't happen with even much larger copy operation from a local or a network drive.
Last but not least I find it very inconvinient that every sub-folder of "Macintosh HD" is opened in a separate window even when Explorer is not set to do that by default.
Integration with "Total Commander" doesn't seem to work unfortunately. It is not possible to copy anything back and forth between the HFS+ and the NTFS volume unless you already copied it via right-click copy/paste before (not CTRL-C/V) from inside Total Commander's windows. Once you copy and paste it via right-click you can also copy it via Total Commander's F5 command.
I'd love to try this beta, but unfortunately every time I attempt register I get a "registration failed" error (yes, I did fill out all the forms, and yes, I did click both checkmarks).
While it installs fine, it does not work at all.
Hi Paragon Dev's, I've been trying MacBrowser under Windows 7 (64 bit -could this be the problem?) - It didn't work out well at all.
The beta installed fine in the Windows 7 beta, but I had to disable the UAC (which makes more sense to leave on in Win7) to get it to install properly.
The MacBrowser drive does not appear in "my computer", and there is no "Other" category of drives like the vista screenshots show.
I'm looking forward to getting it working I'll be giving it a thorough test over the next few days, with several GB's of data to transfer. If I can't get windows 7 to work, I'll just do it by trying MacBrowser in XP instead, so it's not an urgent problem.
Hi Paragon Dev's, I've been trying MacBrowser under Windows 7 (64 bit -could this be the problem?) - It didn't work out well at all.
The beta installed fine in the Windows 7 beta, but I had to disable the UAC (which makes more sense to leave on in Win7) to get it to install properly.
The MacBrowser drive does not appear in "my computer", and there is no "Other" category of drives like the vista screenshots show.
I'm looking forward to getting it working I'll be giving it a thorough test over the next few days, with several GB's of data to transfer. If I can't get windows 7 to work, I'll just do it by trying MacBrowser in XP instead, so it's not an urgent problem.
Product implementation
Thanks to the developers for providing a public beta.
I was under the impression this product would enable viewing of all HFS drives. On a space limited laptop, working as a freelance support technician in mixed environments, I would like access to external HFS drives, be they Sata, USB, FireWire, Flash, or even SCSI. Looking at the forum and my own experience with the software this past month shows there is no such support.
My expectations for NTFS and MacBrowser are the ability to read and write files from [external] drives for either platform regardless of the OS I'm currently booted in.
Regards,
Tom
Thanks to the developers for providing a public beta.
I was under the impression this product would enable viewing of all HFS drives. On a space limited laptop, working as a freelance support technician in mixed environments, I would like access to external HFS drives, be they Sata, USB, FireWire, Flash, or even SCSI. Looking at the forum and my own experience with the software this past month shows there is no such support.
My expectations for NTFS and MacBrowser are the ability to read and write files from [external] drives for either platform regardless of the OS I'm currently booted in.
Regards,
Tom
I bought the upgrade (I got version 6 free as a beta tester). The new MacBrowser now includes 64-bit drivers. I'll give it a thorough test later.
Dear Forum Visitors,
I am sorry for keeping silence for so long. We have released Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0 that includes MacBrowser.
Thank you very much for you help with testing Paragon MacBrowser. We appreciate it very much. As I promised the most active beta testers will be provided with the product for free.
The most active beta testers are:
Sp0ng3B0b;
starless;
duxDuck;
computerfreak;
Timur;
pinchies.
Please send me your names and email as a private message and I will provide you with the product link soon.
Thank you all,
Anatoly.
I am sorry for keeping silence for so long. We have released Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 7.0 that includes MacBrowser.
Thank you very much for you help with testing Paragon MacBrowser. We appreciate it very much. As I promised the most active beta testers will be provided with the product for free.
The most active beta testers are:
Sp0ng3B0b;
starless;
duxDuck;
computerfreak;
Timur;
pinchies.
Please send me your names and email as a private message and I will provide you with the product link soon.
Thank you all,
Anatoly.
Hehe, I just bought NTFS for Mac before reading here again. Too bad. But I could give the extra licence to my band-mate.
Version 7 solves the problems of the V6 trial where many files being copied resulted in errors.
NTFS for Mac is considerably faster when writing compared to the freeware NTFS-3G, but it's still considerably slower than using HFS or FAT32 on OS X or using NTFS on native Windows (Bootcamp). I hope that write performance is enhanced with the next version.
Unfortunately I'm still having problems with Mac Browser. It simply doesn't show my HFS/OS X partition of a bootcamped Macbook Pro (1 HFS+ OS X partition + 1 NTFS Vista-64 partition).
Version 7 solves the problems of the V6 trial where many files being copied resulted in errors.
NTFS for Mac is considerably faster when writing compared to the freeware NTFS-3G, but it's still considerably slower than using HFS or FAT32 on OS X or using NTFS on native Windows (Bootcamp). I hope that write performance is enhanced with the next version.
Unfortunately I'm still having problems with Mac Browser. It simply doesn't show my HFS/OS X partition of a bootcamped Macbook Pro (1 HFS+ OS X partition + 1 NTFS Vista-64 partition).
Virtually identical system (iMac, not MBP) and I have the same problem. Maybe their 64-bit Windows drivers don't really work yet. The beta was 32-bit.
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