However, there is no guarantee that it will work. You need to get into your troubleshooting mode and feed command lines to get it done. To enable NTFS write on Mac, you need to mess with the Terminal. Feeding some magical command lines in the Terminal: Vii. Enable System Integration Protection and reboot your Mac to perform write operations to the NTFS external drive.ģ. Sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs Sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.original Vi. After disabling System Integration Protection, link NTFS-3G to the system location by typing the following command: Now disable System Integration Protection to replace the NTFS driver with NTFS-3G and reboot your Mac
#Enable ntfs write support for mac osx sierra install#
Iv. Next, type in the following commands to install OSXFUSE and NTFS-3G *(Homebrew cask is extends Homebrew package manager which makes it easier to install and manage graphical applications) Type in brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask command to install Homebrew cask. Enter the following command in the Terminal prompt:
Got to Applications folder, open the Utilities folder and launch Terminal *(You need to temporarily disable System Integrity Protection first to replace default read-only NTFS driver with NTFS-3G)įollow these instructions to install NTFS-3G: Besides, enabling write support to NTFS drives on Mac is a security risk as well.
They are slower and just not that powerful as compared with the paid versions.
Free and open source utilities are also an option to access NTFS external drives on your macOS High Sierra enabled Mac.
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