Ntfs for mac taking long time

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The problem is that MacFUSE is not maintained anymore and doesn’t work with a 64-bit kernel which is used by default in Lion.įirst Google results usually point you to commercial solutions, but I’m not willing to pay for something as basic as filesystem support, which, frankly, Apple should have provided themselves long time ago. However, that doesn’t work anymore on Lion. I’ve previously used MacFUSE and NTFS-3G, which is probably the most commonly used solution for people who want full NTFS access on OSX (as you probably know, by default OSX only provides read only support).

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I’m using NTFS on my Windows XP partition and on a WD external drive.

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After I upgraded my Mac to Lion this month, I’ve noticed that my NTFS drives stopped working.