Some questions that might come up
My NTFS disk diapppears for Desktop when using Mounty
Unfortunately this is by design.
Mounty is using the Apple kernel driver. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu.
Mounty is using the Apple kernel driver. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu.
Nice colorful screensaver for Mac OS X. Many settings are available. It is native, open, small, and still runs perfectly on 10.11 (El Capitan). The text and font is freely editable, by default the computer name is displayed. Older versions are available to also run on previous OS versions (universal builds available).
My USB stick will not re-mount. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this doesn't help.
This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.
- Nice colorful screensaver for Mac OS X. Many settings are available. It is native, open, small, and still runs perfectly on 10.11 (El Capitan). The text and font is freely editable, by default the computer name is displayed. Older versions are available to also run on previous OS versions (universal builds available).
- El Capitan Download. There are two recommended installation methods for El Capitan download and install on your Mac PC or Laptop recommended by the Apple. Before use those installation methods you should need to have free space (around 12 GB) on your drive for keeping the installation files when installation is processing.
Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!
This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance, like Paraogn Harddisk Manager or Tuxera Disk Manager.
Sometimes the files are grayed out and cannot be modified anymore.
This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to the Manpage of xattr for further explanation. If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with
ls -l@ <filename>
, and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple.<attribute> <filename>, i.e.: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt
Unable to re-mount in read/write mode when trying to mount Windows 10 partition
If you try to mount a Windows System partition, Mounty might fail when Hibernation feature is enabled. There is a Fast Start feature in Windows which might be enabled by default, and this is causing the drive to be locked. Within Windows running, you need to run the command
powercfg /hibernate off
in an admin powershell and restart Windows to disable this feature and remove the lock to enable it for Mounty. Thanks to Art Schultz pointing that out. On you MAC, you can only read (open/copy) the contents of a NTFS file system, you can not perform any write operations like cut/delete. We have already covered How to Write to NTFS Drives in OS X Yosemite / El Capitan using Tuxera NTFS. It’s the easiest way to perform cut, delete or write new contents on an external NTFS drive in your Mac. But this software comes with only 15 days of trial and after the trial you need to purchase the license to continue the NTFS write support. The full license costs 25.00 EUR. But if you don’t want to spend money, here is a way to enable your Mac to support write operations on NTFS file systems for free.
Install FUSE for OS X
First of all install FUSE for OS X. It works as the building block and allows to extend Mac OS X’s native file handling capabilities with the help of other third party file systems (like NTFS) on top of it. So here to install our next two utility softwares we first need to install FUSE for OS X.
https://lasopacruise644.weebly.com/blurb-download-mac.html. While installing it make sure to check “MacFUSE Compatibility Layer” to add support for backward compatibility.
Install NTFS-3G
This is the actual their party driver, that will work on top of OSXFUSE to enable NTFS write on your Mac.
Ntfs For Mac Os Sierra
Turbotax 2019 for mac download. During installation you will get an option to choose Caching Mode. UBLIO cache increases the performance by creating an internet buffer. So every time during read or write operations instead of performing disk I/O it fetches or writes data to the buffer. For an example, if you edit a huge .log file, which is on your external NTFS disk. A copy of the file will first come to the internal buffer. Now every changes you make on this file will not immediately write to the disk, even if you save the file after every changes. Instead the changes will be stored in internal buffer. It will follow a lazy algorithm to write these changes to the actual disk. When you remove your external device by clicking on the remove button, all dirty blocks (changed data left in buffer) that yet have not been written to disk will be written to the External disk and after that your NTFS disk will get dismounted. As it reduces the necessity of I/O operations, the read-write performance gets improved.
But If you don’t safely remove the disk or if external disk goes offline because of power failure, you may lose some of your recent data or changes, as it could possible that those changes were still in buffer and did not get the time or force write instruction (during safely remove). As buffer is a temporary memory, those files/data will be lost in that case.
In case of No Caching mode, there will be no internal cache layer. Information/file will be fetched directly from the disk and changes will be written directly to the disk. So there is no chance of data lose. For daily usage, where you don’t need to handle large files, you may choose No caching.
That’s it, your system is absolutely ready to perform NTFS write operations.
Additional Patch: Install fuse-wait
fuse-wait comes with NTFS-3G, that you have already installed in previous step. But NTFS-3G has not been updated by it’s developer. Because of some changes in Mac OS X 10.7 fuse-wait(NTFS-3g) will display a timeout error whenever you will connect a NTFS drive. Though you will able to write to NTFS drives without any issue. But every time getting this error message seems annoying. To resolve it you need to install this fuse-wait patch.
Os X El Capitan Download
That’s it.