Writing to NTFS in Mac OS X

I know this has sorta been covered already but i heard some people talking about some sort of software that allows you to write to NTFS. I heard Nicholie talking about a piece of software that he found but i havent seen any posts by him on it yet. so nicholie if your out there lets hear about that software or if anybody else know of anything. i think im gonna be picking up my MBP SR tomorrow and ill be a switcher so ill need to transfer files from my windows machine

 

if you have files on an ntfs partition, you can just directly transfer those files.

obviously programs for windows wont run on osx. but music, videos, etc (content) will work with osx.

osx can READ ntfs. for file transfer, you dont need anything special.

good luck!

 

Sure, but he is talking about writing. Of course you don't need to write just to transfer files to OS X as you noted, but anyways...
Here is a snip from Macosxhints (great site BTW):
1. If you choose to compile yourself, install Xcode 2.4.1, and especially the SDK package within it. Also, compile the latest release of pkgconfig.
2. Download MacFuse. Compile it yourself, or easier of course, is to download the binary .dmg file.
3. Download ntfs-3g and compile it -- there's also a premade binary .dmg if you prefer.
4. In Disk Utility, check out the device identifier (disk0s2 or something) of the NTFS volume, and unmount it.
5. In Terminal, type mkdir /Volumes/your_ntfs_volume, where your_ntfs_volume is the name of your NTFS volume.
6. Still in Terminal, type ntfs-3g /dev/disk0s2 /Volumes/your_ntfs_volume -o ping_diskarb,volname="your_ntfs_volume".

Normally your volume should be mounted. If not, type disktool -r and killall finder. To unmount, use sudo umount /dev/disk0s2. Use AppleScript if you want to facilitate mounting and unmounting.
You don't need to compile anything, get the dmgs.
The article is here: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070220150856279
Macfuse can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
and ntfs-3g here:
http://idisk.mac.com/shadowofged/Public/Software/MacFUSE/MacFUSE%20Tools 0.2.2.dmg
YMMV, but most people report it is stable but a bit slow. Proceed with caution.

 

danggg. thanks mann ill try this out once i get my MBP

 

Wooky,

Great reply, thank you ... and even though I have yet to make my jump (been on the fence for well over a year now), this info. you've posted will sure be helpful for when I do make my move.

 

I've def had trouble getting MacFuse to work.

A backwards solution might be MacDrive.

It's windows software that lets windows pull files from a Mac.

 

I've never managed to get this answered. I've heard that MacFuse writes to ntfs reaaaally slowly.

Are there similar problems using MacDrive to write to hfs?

 

Try the latest versions. There is a pack available with both dmgs, should make installation easier. Also, there is a front end called MacFusion, give Google a call.
Alas, I read somewhere (TUAW?) that Parallels 3 itself uses MacFuse, and it sports and older version that might give some headaches if you install another version of MacFuse on top of it.