enastipos Posted October 12, 2008 Share Posted October 12, 2008 I have installed MacOsX 10.5.2 on my PC (asus P5KC, dual core 2160 1.8GHz running at 3GHz) Everithing are working fine (even my USB wifi card, realteck 8187 ! ) I have two problems The major one is that Finder application cannot search in the NTFS volumes (it seems like it is searching but does nothing) (I have tryed both macFUSE and Paragon) I can see them perfectly but no search.... is there any external program that can do this search? The second problem (minor) is that I cannot set permissions for the NTFS Volumes, folders or files , they are Read and Write for all the users of the computer. Do anyone have a solution for this? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~ BlurKing Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 you need NTFS-3G. requirement of NTFS-3G is MacFUSE and erm Mac OS X... found at http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ i hope this is not considered warez... anyway i still do not know what warez is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enastipos Posted October 14, 2008 Author Share Posted October 14, 2008 NTFS-3G is used to change the NTFS Volumes from read to read/write ..... I am trying to do a file search in the NTFS Volumes.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superfaen Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 If you can afford it you should get Paragon NTFS for mac. I experienced that NTFS-3G (which is not warez btw.) gave me very slow write speed. Could be my fault though. Anyways, Paragon gives me very good speed and it works very well. Spotlight searching on my NTFS drive was not enabled by default, I had to enter a command in terminal to get it to index my disk. Don't remember the command now, but do a search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aprodigy Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gengstapo Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 paragon ntfs is the only fast solution i use this on my machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotcorez Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I had problems with spotlight constantly causing disk activity. I decide to leave it on for HFS+ drives and use easyfind search for NTFS drives:- http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/index.html if anyone has good performance using spotlight on NTFS, please let me know. I can confirm that Paragon NTFS is very good. Thanks, HC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enastipos Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 Perfect! the Easyfind worked in NTFS Volumes! Thanks! ( I didn't try the SpotLight solution I am happy with this one!) I also confirm that Paragon is very very fast :-) So the first thing is solved :-) What about the permissions on NTFS Volumes will I be able to set permissions for my users ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazzzi Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Spotlight sucks for ntfs as much as it sucks for HFS This is the worst app in Osx imo Install filebuddy & you r done with spotlight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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