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Giveaway of the Day - Paragon NTFS for Mac 6.5 (English Version)

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Giveaway of the Day - Paragon NTFS for Mac 6.5 (English Version)
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Danielj on 19/11/2009 - 19:53 giveawayoftheday.com (734 clicks)

I personally use this software and it works great. Never had any problem.
If you are a Mac user and sometimes you need to access and write something a NTFS partition then this software is for you.
Best of all it's free to download from now until tomorrow 6pm.

From the website:

NTFS for Mac OS X provides a unique complete solution and creates an effective communication channel between Mac OS X and Windows. You can browse contents, read and modify files, copy and create new files and folders on both file systems with your Mac OS X. Break down the barriers between Windows and Mac OS!

Key Features:

Completely and instantly access all Windows files and folders with your Mac.
Easy, safe installation and usage.
Unhampered data exchange between PC and Mac.
Share Windows files as a Mac user via external disk drives.
Make any version of NTFS a native file system for Mac OS X – no restrictions, full support!
Detailed Product information is available at NTFS for Mac OS X website.

Limitations: Mac Browser for Windows is not included in version 6.5

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  • ESEMCE on 19/11/2009 - 20:47

    I've always used NTFS-3G for MacFUSE.. which is always free..
    Looks like this can make an NTFS drive a system disk though! Not sure why you'd want to do that, but anyway.

    • Danielj on 19/11/2009 - 22:52

      I wasn't aware of NTFS-3G! it's a shame.
      By a little research I found many horror stories about both of these programs, which fortunately didn't happen to me, and based on my readings there is more complaints about NTFS-3G than NTF for Mac.
      Can you compare them from your personal experience?
      Thanks

      • Noslee on 20/11/2009 - 01:20

        Been using NTFS-3G since Tiger, Leopard, now Snow Kitty, extremely stable and reliable , read write any NTFS formatted drives. Always FREE :p

      • ESEMCE on 20/11/2009 - 07:08

        Yeah, I never had any problems except with drives that were not removed properly from Windows boxes.
        And once when a blackout caused my Mac to turn off without ejecting the drive.
        In all cases, plugging the drive into a Windows PC allowed NTFS-3G to read-write the drive again.

        Quite possibly horror stories are more prevalent for NTFS-3G because
        1) more people use it
        2) it's open source and therefore has been largely a "beta" release with continuing development ironing out bugs for a number of years.

  • linuslv on 19/11/2009 - 21:28

    Does it support Snow Leopard?

    • Danielj on 19/11/2009 - 22:49

      What I could find is that, officially version 7 is Snow Leopard compatible. So I think it's better not to try this on Snow Leopard considering that dealing with file system could be sensitive.

    • ESEMCE on 20/11/2009 - 10:44
      +1

      Snow Leopard has native NTFS read/write support. You have to activate it by the command line though.
      Native support is preferable to plugin support.

      • Daabido on 20/11/2009 - 11:01

        That's interesting. I knew it had read support, but didn't know about the write support.

        • Guppy on 20/11/2009 - 23:27

          As scubacoles said, it's a hidden feature and has to be enabled manually.

          Apple may have done that for a reason; some users have apparently reported data corruption on their NTFS partitions after enabling native read-write support. I'd make sure I had a good backup plan before testing it out.

  • iaijutsu on 20/11/2009 - 11:53

    I've never had any problems with Macfuse and NTFS-3G. It's been incredibly stable (and free). It does require that you shut your windows partition down nicely before it can access the partition. However this is not unexpected or unreasonable.

  • Tihocan on 21/11/2009 - 07:50

    Darn, looks like I just missed out (says 1 day left, but the deal is over).

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