As installed, OS X can only read NTFS. As Niel noted, Mac OS Extended is the best choice, as long as there's no reason for the drive to be accessible from a Windows computer. If it must be NTFS, then you have these choices for the Mac to enable write access. A commercial product is Paragon NTFS for Mac. Users running Mac OS X with Bootcamp Windows may struggle to modify. It is in NTFS File System format which you can read the drive natively in Mac OS X but. And the most useful FUSE is the NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver, which ables.

By default, you can’t write to Windows NTFS USB drives and hard disks on macOS as they appear as read-only on the Desktop.

You can write to these disks with a few installs and tweaks in the Terminal, which will make all NTFS drives writeable – there are also some commercial point and click apps that can get the job done if you don’t fancy wading into Terminal commands.

This has been tested in macOS Mojave and Sierra, OSX 10.11 guide here.

Get Xcode and Brewed Up

To start with you are going to need Xcode and some Unix style application packages – and what makes this easy on is Homebrew, a package manager for macOS, follow this guide if you haven’t already got it, it will get you up to speed on both Xcode and Homebrew first, after that come back here and tackle the rest below which involves installing a couple of apps and tweaking a couple of files.

For Xcode you may have an older version you can prompt the updated tools installation with…

Once you have Xcode and Homebrew the following will allow you to write to NTFS disks.

Disable SIP Protection

You’ll need to disable SIP protection which you then can re-enable again.

Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by rebooting and holding down ‘command’ + ‘r’.

Launch a Terminal session and enter

Reboot – (to enable it back after you finish the process see the link).

Install FUSE for macOS

Download and install the latest FUSE for macOS, this will add a new preference pane but no configuration is needed. The app make it possible for other software to extend the capabilities of the filing system such as ntfs-3g

Launch Terminal:

Install ntfs-3g

At this point you need to change the mount_ntfs file, the new file will allow the writes to NTFS disks, these commands will back up the original and then link to the modified mount_ntfs file as supplied by Brew/ntfs-3g

Back up the original

Link to the new

Re-attach your NTFS drive

That’s it, now all mounted NTFS drives can be written to, if it doesn’t work just disconnect/connect the NTFS drive and/or also do a full reboot.

Commercial NTFS Apps for macOS

If this free solution does not work for you there are always some paid apps to do the job, one that I have used previously is Tuxera NTFS for Mac which offers a 15 day try before you buy offer, works great, also there is Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon, this is also a try before you buy 15 day usage, I haven’t personally tried this one. Both apps are similarly priced around USD$20.

In Mac OS by default installed NTFS driver can only read data from External Hard Disc or Pen Drive. So this is a big issue for those who have storage devices formatted on Windows operating system and want to store some data from Mac OS. Here is the solution for this type of file copy issue.

In our solution, we will use three software package to enable NTFS driver for MacOS Serria or MacOS Mojave. Here step by step process to enable NTFS Driver on Mac OS. Open Terminal in your Mac and follow the commands.

Step 1:

Install Brew in your Mac. (This is a package manager in Mac OS).

Step 2:

Install FUSE for MacOS. (This is a extend macOS's native file handling capabilities via third-party file systems).

Step 3:

Install NTFS 3G for MasOS. (NTFS-3G is an open source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system with read-write support).

Now you have installed everything that is required to enable NTFS file system in MacOS. Now you need to configure the driver for your MacOS.

Step 4:

To move forward first you need to disable the system integrity protection so that you can replace default NTFS driver with NTFS 3G Driver. So reboot the Mac and hold Command+R on the boot start time. You will get a Recovery console window, On top menu go in Utilities and select Terminal.

On terminal type following command:

You will get a successful message after this. Now reboot Mac normally and open terminal again.

Step 5:

Run the following command to activate NTFS driver.

Now your original NTFS driver has been renamed to .original and new Driver activated.

Step 6:

You need again enable system integrity protection so reboot the Mac and hold Command+R on the boot start time. You will get a Recovery console window, On top menu go in Utilities and select Terminal.

On terminal type following command:

You will get a successful message after this. Now reboot Mac normally and open terminal again.

Step 7:

Now your MacOS is ready for the NTFS file system. Connect NTFS drive to your Macbook and allow OSX FUSE when ask for allowing. Disconnect the device and connect again. Your device will be ready to read/write files. Enjoy NTFS.

Note: On macOS Catalina you might face issues in step 5 for read-only files. So, in that case, you can use a temporary solution to write on the NTFS file system.

Open fstab file.

View the name of your volume/disc-partition that you need to allow write file. Write the following on fstab file.

Change YOUR_VOLUME_NAME to your volume name and save file using ctrl+o and exit.

Now reconnect your drive, you will not see the volume in Finder left menu. Now open Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder

Type /volume and click onGo.

You will see your volume name there. Open and use that. Enjoy NTFS.

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