Presentation :

SL-NTFS (Snow Leopard NTFS) is a Preference Pane that enables writing on NTFS (commonly used by Windows XP/Vista/7) formatted disks.

Mac OS X prior to Snow Leopard could read NTFS disks/partitions, but couldn’t write to them. Snow Leopard has the ability to write to NTFS, but because Apple does not officially support it, this capability is disabled by default.

Because SL-NTFS is basically an interface for configuring the Apple NTFS driver, any issues you might encounter will be related to the Apple driver rather than SL-NTFS. If you require a more robust, supported solution for writing to NTFS drives/partitions, I recommend you locate a more comprehensive solution.

SL-NTFS shouldn’t be used in conjunction WITH any other solution that provides the same or similar functionality as this will likely cause you some trouble !

Installation :

Installation is very simple. Download and unzip the SL-NTFS archive, launch the installer package and follow the install procedure as prompted.

Usage :

It’s designed to be very simple to use. Once the install is complete, just open the SL-NTFS Preference Pane (via System Preferences) and you will see the configuration interface :

The table lists all the available NTFS volumes (Internal and External) and their corresponding write status.

To enable or disable writing on a volume, simply check the corresponding button. You will be prompted to authenticate with your password if you are not already authenticated.

If after changing a drive’s status to NTFS write-enabled the button remains unchecked, this means that writing to this disk via the Apple driver unfortunately isn’t possible.

You may choose to activate a daemon (a “daemon” process, that runs in background) this will ask you if you want to write-enable a particular disk each time an NTFS drive that isn’t NTFS write-enabled is mounted.

Uninstall :

To do a clean uninstall, simply use the uninstall button in the “about” tab of the SL-NTFS Preference Pane.

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Known issues :

- If the disk name is composed (ex : Untitled disk), enabling the writing will fail, nothing I can do now.
- If you use an external disk (ex : USB), and enabling writing fail, try to mount your disk on a Windows partition and safe eject the disk. It’s possible the NTFS partition is corrupted and OS X can’t repair it because it hasn’t the tool. Nothing I can do to fix this.