NTFS-3G for Mac
Read-write NTFS filesystem driver.
Free
In English
Version 2017.3.23When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
NTFS-3G overview
NTFS-3G for OS X is a software project designed to bring NTFS read/write support to the Mac platform, along with additional advanced features. It is based on NTFS-3G, the leading open source NTFS driver that is ported to numerous platforms, but also includes other software projects to build a complete toolset for managing NTFS volumes.
NTFS-3G itself is included in hundreds of Linux distributions; for example Fedora, Mandriva, openSUSE and Ubuntu use NTFS-3G as the default NTFS driver. Development has been ongoing since 2006.
What’s new in version 2017.3.23
Version 2017.3.23:
- Delegated processing of special reparse points to external plugins
- Allowed kernel cacheing by lowntfs-3g when not using Posix ACLs
- Enabled fallback to read-only mount when the volume is hibernated
- Made a full check for whether an extended attribute is allowed
- Moved secaudit and usermap to ntfsprogs (now ntfssecaudit and ntfsusermap)
- Enabled encoding broken UTF-16 into broken UTF-8
- Autoconfigured selecting
vs - Allowed using the full library API on systems without extended attributes support
- Fixed DISABLE_PLUGINS as the condition for not using plugins
- Corrected validation of multi sector transfer protected records
- Denied creating/removing files from $Extend
- Returned the size of locale encoded target as the size of symlinks
NTFS-3G for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2017.3.23
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Nov 26 2018
Version: 2017.3.23
NTFS-3G is an open source project. As such, it is free to use. HOWEVER: What you download is the source code. Therefore, you're going to have to know how to compile the code yourself and have the tools to do it, specifically Apple's Xcode. If you'd rather have a ready to use installer version, then what you want is Tuxera NTFS, $17.52 plus tax. It's the same thing and supports the open source project with your payment. It has a 15 day trial.
Nov 14 2015
Version: 2015.3.14
Previously awesome, but this (ver. 2015.3.14) source tarball was not makeable in Mavericks for me, even after using MacPorts to install the missing library it complained about (the libintl module). It's better to just install NTFS-3G itself with either MacPorts or Homebrew (maybe even Fink, I haven't checked.) If you do it the MacPorts way, it will even point you, at the end of the install, to a minute-long process for replacing the stock /sbin/mount_ntfs so it works seamlessly in the Finder. If you want a prefpane, you need Tuxera NTFS which isn't free, but won't break the bank, either. I prefer that one, since you get some options that are easy to configure.
Oct 31 2015
Version: 2015.3.14
Main download button is linking to a tar.gz source archive, a precompiled binary. Completely useless for your average Mac user. Anyway, It should also be mentioned in "requirements" that NTFS-3g requires OSXFUSE to be installed.
Oct 28 2015
Version: 2015.3.14
Works! It just works! So thankful for the devs.
Apr 17 2014
Version: 2010.10.2
If you are using this, Boot Camp boot volume does not show up in the Startup Disk control panel. You can still use Boot Champ or QuickBoot to get around this, but it is a big problem. You can still use the Boot Camp control panel under Windows to return to booting OSX though. I am still getting spurious timeout errors under OS X Mavericks 10.9.2, same as NTFS-3G driver.
If everything worked seemlessly, this would get a 5-star rating from me. As it stands, I can give it a solid 4 stars.
