dmurray14 Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 I am wondering if OSX will ever be able to read and write to NTFS partitions. I think that would really solve it for me. Right now, I am kind of miffed, because I can either have what I feel is a crippled file system (FAT32) or a secure one that isn't OSX compatible. I'd really like to be able to bridge the gap between OSX and NTFS/XP. I know of (and use) MacDrive for XP, but it's really not reliable enough to be used day-to-day. What do you think? Dan Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 I think that Apple doesnt have support for writing to NTFS... Maybe they will, in future. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-130457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AirmanPika Posted June 16, 2006 Share Posted June 16, 2006 I'm hoping 10.5 will add write support. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-130465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 i believe microsoft hasnt released all the necesarry information for anyone to add write support. so unless apple somehow has it (through that agreement thing) we wont be seeing write support. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yossarian Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 What about third party software like MacDrive for Windows? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 MacDrive has nothing to do with NTFS. MacDrive tells Windows how to read/write the Mac's HFS+ file system. Apple published specs on HFS+. Microsoft hasn't published specs on writing NTFS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Isnt it possible to port open source linux plugins to OSX. Visist Linuxntfs.org for source Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted June 18, 2006 Share Posted June 18, 2006 Linux-NTFS (http://www.linux-ntfs.org/) says that writing is about 50-50%: Resize files. (Always work.) Create files. (This will either succeed or it will be refused, 50-50% at the moment. Up to about 10 files can be created in a directory.) Create directories. (Same as above.) Remove files/directories (Works fine or removal will be refused, 90-10% at the moment.) Operate with special Interix files (symlinks, devices, FIFOs and sockets.) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yossarian Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 MacDrive has nothing to do with NTFS. MacDrive tells Windows how to read/write the Mac's HFS+ file system. Apple published specs on HFS+. Microsoft hasn't published specs on writing NTFS. I realize this. I said is there a program out there "like MacDrive". What I meant was if there was a similar style program intended for Mac allowing for NTFS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131729 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ampTK Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 OS X does have a very limited comand-line-only write support for NTFS It's derivated from the linux ntfs driver, used in OS X normally for reading that partition type. And folks, I don't know how many threads just like this are in the forum, but are a lot. If you have a question search a bit and if you dont find it, then ask. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asstastic Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 The source code for ntfs is closed ant there is little to no chance that Microsoft will ever open it. This means that there will never be a fully compatable 3rd party solution like MacDrive. The current Linux NTFS write support is realized by reverse enginering microsoft code leading to the current stabolity and featureset issues. Another method exists through a project called captive (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/) which uses windows NTFS drivers by emulating part of the windows OS giving full NTFS read/write support and probably other features not provided by reverse-engineered drivers. I've never used captive but I would assume the method might have some performance issues due to the implementation of an API wrapper. Porting Captive to OSX looks like the best solution to getting full interoperability between Windows and Mac filesystems, let's hope one of the coders here can wrangle the time to get it working. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19847-osx-read-and-write-ntfs/#findComment-131742 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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