NTFS read/write on macOS

tl;dr

get Mounty!

brew cask install mounty

If after copying the files are garyed out and are inaccessible, it’s because of Finder’s xattr file attributes.

# list attributes
ls -l@
# delete Finder attributes
xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo FOO.ext

The old way

source This is more complicated than installing Mounty and didn’t work (the files didn’t show up in the Finder..)

# Install Command Line Tools
xcode-select --install

# Install Homebrew
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

# Install ntfs-3g
brew install ntfs-3g

# create mount point
sudo mkdir /Volumes/NTFS

# determine your drive's partition
diskutil list

# unmount if partition was already mounted by Mac
sudo umount /dev/disk2s1

# mount the drive to the mount point you created
sudo /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/NTFS -olocal -oallow_other
  1. First, download FUSE for macOS and install it. Use the default options when installing it.
  2. Install Command Line Tools
  3. Install Homebrew
  4. Install ntfs-3g
  5. Create mount point, /Volumes/NTFS in the example above
  6. Determine your drive’s partition identifier, disk2s1 in the example above
  7. Unmount partition if it was automatically mounted by your Mac
  8. (Optional) Make an alias for the mount command e.g. mountntfs