Billmaster Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I would like to know how we can use macdrive to use a mac partion just like a windows partion. But OSX can't write to an NTFS file system? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Because NTFS requires a driver to read from and write to it. OS X only has a driver that is capable of reading. So, I guess it really just amounts to the fact that OS X simply cant. Nothing to be done for it (except write an NTFS driver with writing support for OS X) HFS+ is an open standard, if I recall correctly. NTFS isnt. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/#findComment-133341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 This actually is a valid question. First you have to know that NTFS is a security model. If you remember, NTFS supports Access Control Lists (ACL). How is a Mac OS suppose to know who has read/write permission to an NTFS data when the member/group doesn't exist? It will certainly cause serious damage to your NTFS files when you try to access it in Windows. I other words, Mac needs to be aware of permissions and it's not easy to implement. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/#findComment-133546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I guess I was making an oversimplification when I said that OS X doesnt have a driver capable of doing it. Or was I? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/#findComment-133548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 NO, you'r right. They don't have write enable drivers, but certainly can make them, I don't knwo the extent of the usability if they did. I also didn't mention the resource fork that Mac writes to disks, That may be a problem as well. You guys ever unhide files and forders on a FAT32 partiton/drive? Lots of things Mac adds that may not be good on an NTFS formated drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/#findComment-133550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwprod12 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Maybe I should say "They dont have drivers, and, if they wanted to, they could make drivers that would write to an NTFS partition, but most likely, it would ruin the data it wrote, and any other contingent data".... The other day, I wrote a driver for OS X to enable full acceleration and framebuffering for nVidia cards. It doesnt work, but I still wrote a driver! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/#findComment-133555 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fOZf8 Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 I also didn't mention the resource fork that Mac writes to disks, That may be a problem as well. You guys ever unhide files and forders on a FAT32 partiton/drive? Lots of things Mac adds that may not be good on an NTFS formated drive. Actually, when you simply browse across the network to an ntfs drive (don't even have to write), OSX leaves it's little ds store files everywhere. Not sure if that's what you were talking about or not. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/#findComment-133560 Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted June 22, 2006 Share Posted June 22, 2006 Not quite, but you're right. afaik, the ds folders store icons and information about that directory. You can disable it though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20228-why-cant-osx-write-to-ntfs-file-system/#findComment-133564 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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