Thursday, February 2, 2017
Get Mac OS X Lion to Work with NTFS UPDATED
Get Mac OS X Lion to Work with NTFS UPDATED
From a comment in a neighboring blog I successfully got my NTFS drives to mount again after upgrading to Lion. There are paid solutions to NTFS on Lion, but I use Windows-formatted drives so rarely that I cant justify $39.
[UPDATE Aug 31, 2011]
MacFUSE 2.2 has been released with Lion compatibility: There is a 2.2.1 out in the wild, but many have reported that it makes your CPU run like crazy. 2.2.x is expected to be the last MacFUSE release with the new Fuse4X project taking over, but not yet useful for NTFS, as far as I can tell.
Anyway, install NTFS-3G: http://sourceforge.net/projects/catacombae/files/NTFS-3G%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X/2010.10.2/ntfs-3g-2010.10.2-macosx.dmg/download
Then install MacFUSE 2.2: http://www.tuxera.com/mac/macfuse/MacFUSE-Tuxera-2.2.dmg
Its working great for me and not throwing that weird 15.00000 second timeout error that MacFUSE 2.0.3 was doing. and is simpler than the original method I posted.
[/UPDATE]
Old way...
How to do it:
1. Install the latest version of MacFUSE: http://macfuse.googlecode.com/files/MacFUSE-2.0.3%2C2.dmg
1b. If you dont already have it then install the latest version of NTFS-3G http://sourceforge.net/projects/catacombae/files/NTFS-3G%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X/2010.10.2/ntfs-3g-2010.10.2-macosx.dmg/download
2. Install the lastest MacFUSE core of Tuxera (aka NTFS-3G): Install http://www.tuxera.com/mac/macfuse-core-10.5-2.1.9.dmg
3. Install the 64-bit BETA version of the MacFUSE preference pane: http://content.wuala.com/contents/grahamperrin/public/2010/07/31/a/MacFUSE.prefPane-2.0-64-bit-2009-09-10.zip?dl=1
Restart as necessary to make it all happy and stuff.
Enjoy!
Credits: Commenter David @ http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3156578562014006371&postID=2651866977865603342
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