Mounty for NTFS seamlessly integrates with Apple’s Notification Center and issues notifications every time a NTFS volume is detected. By default, Mounty for NTFS offers you the option to re-mount a volume directly from a notification window but, you can change the alert style if you rather us Mounty.

Re-mount NTFS Volumes in read/write mode.

1. Mounty for NTFS is a smooth-running Mac application specially designed to help you re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes in read-write mode. Enables you to quickly re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes in your Mac’s Finder. The light and low-key application runs quietly in the background.
2. NTFS — New Technology File System for Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT and Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT. NTFS is a high-performance and self-healing file system proprietary to Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 desktop systems as well as commonly used in Windows Server 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000 and NT Server.
3. Though Mac does not write to NTFS, you could install the Microsoft NTFS driver for Mac for writing access. There are various NTFS drivers in the market, which can get the read-write compatibility for Mac computer. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera, Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon Software, MOUNTY for NTFS, and more. They work similarly and you.

Mounty is a simple utility to re-mount NTFS volumes in read-write mode. Sometimes you will find yourself struggling with an USB stick from your peers which is NTFS formatted. Reformatting doesn't help since HFS+ formatted drives are not readable on common Windows PCs. Also, FAT32 will not help either when the file size is bigger than 2GB. Here comes Mounty: It uses the build-in capability of OS X and will not install any additional drivers. This makes Mounty a small and handy utility for your daily file sharing workflow.

Mounty is a Free NTFS Enabler Application for macOS which mounts NTFS as writeable in macOS.

Features:

• Easy: A menu icon; You will be notified if there is any volume connected to the computer which is NTFS formatted and ready to re-mount in read-write mode.
• Light: A simple design; Mounty for NTFS comes without any decorations.No additional driver will be installed. It simply makes use of the build-in mechanisms already provided by Mac OS X Mavericks - no strings attached.

Issues

Volume not re-mountable.

This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. There might be some dirty sectors left and macOS will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.

Suddenly all my files disappeared.

This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery softwares, i.e. chkdsk command line utility.

Sometimes the files are grayed out and cannot be modified anymore.

Mounty For Ntfs

This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to the Manpage of xattr for further explanation. If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with ls -l@ <filename>, and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple.<attribute> <filename>, i.e.: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt

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Unable to re-mount in read/write mode when trying to mount Windows 10 partition

Mounty For Ntfs For Window

If you try to mount a Windows System partition, Mounty might fail when Hibernation feature is enabled. There is a Fast Start feature in Windows which might be enabled by default, and this is causing the drive to be locked. Within Windows running, you need to run the command powercfg /hibernate off in an admin powershell and restart Windows to disable this feature and remove the lock to enable it for Mounty.