Y2J2K Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I have a dual-boot setup with 10.4.5 and Windows XP. I can see both of my NTFS Windows drives from OS X but I cannot write to them (thye are read-only). Is there any way to allow it OS X to write to these drives? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsh Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 AFIK, there is no way and it is the same exact situation with Linux. OS X has no direct support for writing for safety reasons. NTFS is a closed file system just like HFS. (There is a program for Linux although, maybe Microsoft got paid some major cash for opening or else a whole lot of reverse engineering went down?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-84758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fOZf8 Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Yet OSX still manages to write it's little .DS files all over my ntfs. ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-84764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 I think that Tiger isn't able to write onto NTFS partitions by design. Those .DS files that you see in your Windows partition must come from a Mac system by connecting the MacIntel (having Tiger an not Windows running) with any other Wintel PC or carriyng it in any USB driver. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-84769 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_christer Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 in fact, mac osx can write to your ntfs partition its just not capable of writing to it like hfs or fat32 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-84776 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 chrishelms: do you think that Mac OS can write those .DS files (or any other file) in the NTFS partition? I think the NTFS driver of Mac OS X acts like the same driver in Linux: read only (safe) but not read'n'write (dangerous). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-84939 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veeoh Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 in fact, mac osx can write to your ntfs partitionits just not capable of writing to it like hfs or fat32 Doesnt make sense - either it does or doesnt please explain further? Thanks Mark Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-84967 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ritchie Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 OSX can write on NTFS partition as long as they are Shared on a network.. Just share a folder On your ntfs partition for MAC so simple... the same apllies to linux.. you don't need captive NTFS... on fat32 has READ/WRITE permissions already.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-85084 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miliuco Posted March 29, 2006 Share Posted March 29, 2006 "... OSX can write on NTFS partition as long as they are Shared on a network..." But this isn't a real mode! Tiger can read and write shared NTFS partitions using the SMB (or CIFS) network protocol. This is like to say that Windows can read an write EXT2 / EXT3 partitions because it can do it onto Linux partitions shared by SAMBA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/13328-writing-to-ntfs-drives-from-osx/#findComment-85180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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