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Why was this not advertised better?

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I know that a fair number of you dual boot Windows and OS X, and with Snow Leopard we finally have a free way to access our OS X drives from Windows, sure it is read only, but it is a start, and you don't have to give up $30 for MacDrive.

Also, as of Tiger I believe, the Finder had the ability to mount and read NTFS drives, which again is handy.

Apparently Snow Leopard added the ability to natively read/write NTFS drives, but it is not enabled by default.

Following this link and the instructions that follow, you too should be able to enable native (meaning no NTFS-3G, MacFUSE, or Paragon necessary) read/write of NTFS drives. I would still exercise caution if creating NTFS formatted drives from OS X, but if you are connecting a Windows drive to your Mac, your life just got easier.
 
No way!:Q

That's good news, though I probably wouldn't enable it on my machine. Read-only access on each side is good enough for me.
 
This is a great feature but I would read the posts at the link carefully. There is a lot of talk about instability and data loss. It sounds like a feature that isn't finished cooking just yet.

-KeithP
 
yep, i first saw this over at macrumors a few weeks ago...pretty handy, though i never got around to enabling it myself. 🙂
 
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I'm willing to bet it's because it's dangerous. People have been trying to reverse engineer NTFS for years and have never gotten it quite right.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Why was this not advertised better?
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I'm willing to bet it's because it's dangerous. People have been trying to reverse engineer NTFS for years and have never gotten it quite right.
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Yea, you are probably right, dangerous sounds strong... unwise, or advised against maybe. I just got fairly excited when I first saw this because MacFUSE cuts your transfer speeds in half and Paragon costs money.
 
Yea, you are probably right, dangerous sounds strong... unwise, or advised against maybe. I just got fairly excited when I first saw this because MacFUSE cuts your transfer speeds in half and Paragon costs money.
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Dangerous because buggy filesystem drivers can easily cause data loss.
 
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