Paragon NTFS for Mac OS

Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X US$29.95

No longer in beta, version 6.0 was released on 11/15. Why didn't anyone tell me? If this was FREE I would probably use it. Anyone try Paragon yet? They do offer a 10-day Free Trial.

 

Thx for sharing.

I really wish apple would step up and licsense NTFS from M$ and fold it into the OS. But they didn't do it with Leopard, so, it's not going to happen.

Anything Apple can do to play nice in a mean cruel and evil Windows world only helps Apple.

Actually, I've been accessing NTFS shares using Fusion, but, it's not that fast. Works though. So

 

Or Apple could just step up and write their own damn NTFS driver, like Linux devs did.

 

Yeah, I've been trying to filter out that bit of code from the latest Ubuntu. Porting from Linux to OS X shouldn't be that much of a problem, once you get past the sockets it's all the same.

My winter break project is to start researching a way to read/write ntfs in OS X. I doubt I'll really do anything major, but if I'm doing something I would have expected people who know more about this stuff to already have taken a whack at it.

 

There's the MacFuse project.

I just have not had much luck with it.

 

I don't think the cost of licensing NTFS would be feasible if MS would even go for it.

This is good news, I have been hearing good things about Paragon. Fortunately for me, I will be down to one Windows machine that I don't need direct access to, so hopefully I will have no need for something like this.

 

I'm getting pretty sick of not being able to write to NTFS partitions on Leopard. I've read about MacFuse, but the install and setup process seems a bit convoluted and I've heard rumblings of slow performance. If MacFuse just isn't totally stable right now (and if anyone has it working perfectly, PLEASE let me know) then I'll seriously consider Paragon. Unfortunately Paragon NTFS is now $39.95(!), so I'm really curious to know if anyone here has tried it out.

 

Erm, correct me if I'm wrong, but it wasn't any of the core linux guys that did it. It was a separate group that wrote the NTFS-3g system.

And that lovely little tool can corrupt NTFS drives. After having that happen on two of my drives, I'll never touch that again lol. But it took Linux a DAMN long time for them to even get that working.

 

Holllownail: Paragon corrupted your drives?

 

Did the same to some of my files. I do not trust Paragon anymore. Also had some kernel panics running their software.

 

Sorry for sounding a bit dense but what is the issue and why would you need something like this? Is this an issue only with NTFS and not with FAT32? Also, if you install a Windows bootcamp partition with NTFS is there going to be a problem with that?

I just ordered a new Macbook Pro with Fusion and im trying to wrap my head around the whole transition.

 

So what's the deal! Is this Paragon software any good?

Teacher

 

Mac OS X can only read, not write, to an NTFS partition because the NTFS technology is owned by Microsoft who charge a fee for anyone who wants to use it. Applications like the above discussed Paragon are trying to get around that to enable writing to an NTFS partition also.

FAT32 is fine, there is full read/write support built into Mac OS X already.

Windows running on a boot camp partition can be either NTFS or FAT32, doesn't matter - Windows obviously has no problem writing to it. If you make it NTFS the partition will still show up in OS X and you can read/copy from it but you cannot write to it.

Hope that cleared things up a bit for you

 

Given the comments above, I'd stay away from it - risking corrupted drives and kernel panics are not worth what little benefit you get from being able to write to NTFS drives.

 

Keep in mind though that files in FAT32 can't be larger than 4gb. ie no DVD images, or x264, dvd or blue-ray movies.

 

Thanks for the input. Guess I'll stay away from it and continue to use FAT32.

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