Enable NTFS write support in Terminal

1. Open Terminal on your Mac.
2. Connect the drive formatted as NTFS.
3. Enter this command: sudo nano /etc/fstab.
4. Scroll to the end of the list, and enter this command: LABEL=NAME none ntfs rw, auto, nobrowse.
5. Press Control+O on your Mac keyboard.
6. Press Control+X on your keyboard.

Apple’s macOS can read from Windows-formatted NTFS drives, but can’t write to them out of the box. This could be useful if you want to write to a Boot Camp partition on your Mac, as Windows system partitions must use the NTFS file system. However, for external drives, you should probably use exFAT instead.

Press Ctrl+O to save the list, and then press Ctrl+X to exit NANO. Next, connect your Windows drive to the Mac. Open Finder, then click Go’> Go to Folder, then type ‘/Volumes/NAME’ where ‘NAME’ is the name of your NTFS drive. Click ‘Go’ to access your Windows disk.

If an NTFS drive is connected to Mac OS locally, such as via IDE, SATA, or USB, you need Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X to be able to write data to the NTFS partition. So your Mac OS X only needs to support TCP/IP network protocols, which all modern operating systems do.

Yes, Mac OS X can read NTFS natively. It just can’t write or format NTFS natively. To make things simple, use the Windows PC to format an external drive and copy the files to it.

Bottom line. A no-brainer upgrade for those installing macOS 10.14 Mojave, Paragon NTFS for Mac remains the best cross-platform utility money can buy, especially now that it plays nice with Apple’s new dark mode.

So, open System Preferences → find Paragon NTFS for Mac icon → make a right-click and Remove “NTFS for Mac” Preference Pane. Then you should navigate and remove Paragon NTFS cache files stored in ~/Library/Caches, application support files, crash reports, preferences files, remove them as well.

You will be notified if there is any volume connected to the computer which is NTFS formatted and ready to re-mount in read-write mode. Mounty for NTFS comes without any decorations. No additional driver will be installed. It simply makes use of the build-in mechanisms already provided by macOS – no strings attached.

Mounty is a Free NTFS Enabler Application for macOS which mounts NTFS as writeable in macOS.

Mac OS X has always been able to read NTFS drives, but tucked away in Mac OS X is a hidden option to enable write support to drives formatted as NTFS (NTFS stands for New Technology File System and is a proprietary file system format for Microsoft Windows).

The NTFS partition might be marked as “dirty” and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows.