You can open up the Volumes directory by typing in the terminal:Īfter that you can drag your drive and to add it to the Finder pane to permanently place it in the left shortcuts pane under “Favourites” for easier access. However, it will not show up in the Finder or Desktop when you connect the drive. Once you do that, write support will be enabled for that drive. To append the UUID with NTFS read and write support to /etc/fstab. With the resulting UUID that shows up, type the following:Įnter your password and hit enter if asked.Įcho “UUID=ENTER_UUID_HERE none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse” > /etc/fstab Where DRIVENAME is your drive’s name to retrieve the UUID of the drive. Open up a terminal window and type:ĭiskutil info /Volumes/DRIVENAME | grep UUID Make sure your NTFS drive is connected to the Mac. This is the most accurate way to get your job done and prevents a lot of ambiguities when dealing with drives. In this method, we’ll essentially add entries to the fstab so an NTFS drive will always be mounted in read-write mode. The fstab stores configuration about what drives/partitions should be mounted where and how when your computer boots up, along with tweaks and other initialization options. The fstab is a file system table that is usually located in Method 1: Manually appending/editing the /etc/fstab fileīefore we proceed with the details, let me explain how this method works. The methods here have been tested and confirmed to be working on Mac OSX 10.10 (Yosemite) and 10.9 (Mavericks).

The method requires usage of the command-line (Terminal), and must be done on a per-drive basis. If you are aware of the risks and comfortable with the consequences, lets move on with the process.

How to add write access to ntfs on mac