Activate Native Read/Write for Snow Leopard! No need for NTFS-3g

Alright guys here it is, this is how you get native support for Read/write for snow leopard running 64-bit kernal.

After a ton of frustration and jumping through hoops, I thought I'd save a few people out there some headaches.
NTFS-3G + Macfuse does not work in snow leopard 64-bit kernal If anyone got it to work I'd like to know how as I have tried everything an it doesn't work.

So here is an even better alternative.

Remember when Snow leopard was supposed to support NTFS natively out of the box? Well it does...kind of. I'm not sure what happened but Apple was working on it, but in the end decided not to activate it. Kinda almost like the ipod touch with the camera.

Before you can do anything, you must completely uninstall NTFS-3G and Macfuse. Heres on how to uninstall.

Q 2.3. How can I uninstall MacFUSE?

A: Launch the Mac OS X System Preferences application and go to the MacFUSE preference pane. Click on the "Remove MacFUSE" button. This will uninstall all MacFUSE components except the preference pane itself.

You can keep the MacFUSE preference pane around should you decide to install MacFUSE again in the future. If you do wish to remove it, you do it just like how you would remove any other non-Apple preference pane: In System Preferences, control-click (right-click) on the MacFUSE icon and you will see "Remove ..." as an action.

Only if you had the "Show Beta Versions" button checked in the MacFUSE prefpane, you'll have a property list (plist) file remaining at this point: /Library/Preferences/com.google.macfuse.plist. To remove it, you should uncheck the button before you remove the prefpane as described above.

Note that an official (correct) MacFUSE installation will have a preference pane if you have MacFUSE 2.0 or later installed. If you have an older version of MacFUSE, you can uninstall as follows.

Uninstalling NTFS-3G
You can use the uninstall button from the preference pane. If that doesn't work then use these commands in terminal:

sudo rm -r /Library/PreferencePanes/NTFS-3G.prefPane
sudo rm -r /System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs-3g.fs
sudo rm /sbin/mount_ntfs-3g /sbin/newfs_ntfs-3g
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/fuse_wait /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g.probe /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g_daemon /usr/local/bin/ntfscat /usr/local/bin/ntfscluster /usr/local/bin/ntfscmp /usr/local/bin/ntfsfix /usr/local/bin/ntfsinfo /usr/local/bin/ntfsls
sudo rm -r /usr/local/include/ntfs /usr/local/include/ntfs-3g
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/libntfs.* /usr/local/lib/libntfs-3g.* /usr/local/pkgconfig/libntfs-3g.pc
sudo rm /usr/local/sbin/mkntfs /usr/local/sbin/ntfsclone /usr/local/sbin/ntfscp /usr/local/sbin/ntfslabel /usr/local/sbin/ntfsresize /usr/local/sbin/ntfsundelete
sudo rm -r /usr/local/share/doc/ntfs-3g /usr/local/share/doc/ntfsprogs
sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man8/libntfs-gnomevfs.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/mkfs.ntfs.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/mkntfs.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/mount.ntfs-3g.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfs-3g.probe.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscat.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsclone.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscluster.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscmp.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfscp.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsfix.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsinfo.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfslabel.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsls.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsmount.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsprogs.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsresize.8 /usr/local/share/man/man8/ntfsundelete.8

Now that you have everything removed install http://ntfsmounter.com/

Activate NTFS
1. Run NTFS Mounter application
2. Plug in external ntfs via usb
3. Unmount and Eject external NTFS through disk utility
4. Use NTFS Mounter dropdown menu and click on your drive
5. Wait for NTFS Mounter to remount your external NTFS as read/write.

You must do this everytime for every different external hdd that you plan to use with your Mac. What happens is that your Mac auto mounts NTFS as read only. So you have to use the App to remount it as read/write.

 

You're running SL 64-bit kernal? If so, how did you get it to work? I only got it to read only.

 

Its all good.

Thats why I made this thread. I just wanted to make sure that NTFS-3G doesn't work in SL 64-bit.

Remember people this is a fix for NTFS in SL 64-Bit Kernal. If you are not running this setup refrain from posting.

 

Paragon NTFS works in 64 Bit Kernel if you dont want to go through the hassle of doing what the op did.