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Adding NTFS support to Mac OS X

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Thanks Tracey, nice article. I especially liked your comments about the License Key as I have experienced the same thing before especially with long keys.

Common formats for hard drives:

- Windows reads & writes to NTFS, and FAT32

- OS X reads and writes to FAT32 and Mac OS X extended (aka HFS+)

- OS X can read from, but not write to, NTFS (i.e. it is read only for the Mac)
enable write with:
http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/02/enable-ntfs-write-support-mac-os-x/

MacDrive ($50) will allow Windows computers to read and write to drives that are formatted as HFS+:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

as will MacDisk ($39):
http://www.macdisk.com/mden.php3

and TransMac ($48)
http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm

A Mac can write to (as well as read from) a NTFS disk using:

NTFS for Mac OS X (free)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfsosx/

NTFS-3G (free)
<http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/09/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-201088.html>

NTFS - Mac ($20)
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/

Tuxera NTFS($31)
http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/