

You can deploy Stellar Phoenix Mac Data Recovery - Professional to resume things to normal. Having a Mac data recovery is another option that can be considered for restoring deleted files. More important, your data is at risk if anything goes haywire hence, backup your data before proceeding with it. While implementing commands in Terminal may seem quick and easy, it has some pitfalls like occasional instability, security risks, etc. Unmount the connected NTFS drive and again plug it into your Mac to access the files on the drive with write operations. Save the file (Press Ctrl + O) and Ctrl + X to close the Terminal I. Launch Terminal and enter the following command On the contrary, it may wreak havoc on your Mac’s stability causing issues with your File System (corrupt data issue).īefore proceeding with this step, make sure that the NTFS external drive is mounted on your Mac. 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 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.
