By default, inserting an NTFS disk into a Mac is read but not write. So how to make your Mac read and write NTFS hard disk, see the following method 👇.

Paragon NTFS for MAC (Method 1)

This is a paid software, not to say more, directly go to the official website to download the purchase line, the current price of 138 yuan.

Enable native reading and writing NTFS on Mac OSX (Method 2)

In fact, OSX originally supported direct writing to NTFS disks as early as OSX 10.5, but this feature was later disabled due to Microsoft’s restrictions, so we can manually enable this option from the command line.

Insert the disk

At this point, the Mac desktop should display the inserted disk, but when you try to drag the file into the disk, you find that the file cannot be dragged into the disk. In this case, you should view the disk properties in Windows NTFS format.

Open a terminal

View the Volume Name of the disk

diskutil list
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The Volume Name of your disk can be seen by typing the above command. For example, my Volume Name is Elements.

Update the /etc/fstab file

sudo nano /etc/fstab
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Enter the password, then LABEL=Elements None NTFS Rw, Auto, noBrowse, where Elements is the name of your disk.

When you are done here, press Ctrl + X, the message “Do you want to save” will appear, press Y and enter to exit the current page, then restart the computer.

Show disk in finder When the computer restarts you will notice that the disk does not show up in finder or on your desktop. Since the Elements partition is run by /Volumes, we can create a shortcut to the directory on our desktop.

sudo ln -s /Volumes/Elements ~/Desktop/Elements
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Then we can see the inserted disk on the desktop and copy the files to the disk.

NTFS Tool (Method 3, recommended)

This is an open source software on GitHub, completely free. Official website ntfstool.com/