In this post, I’ll show how to write NTFS drives in macOS Catalina and macOS Mojave. They don’t support each others file system.

Apple’s products including macOS have their own file system like other operating systems. It has quite lots of lovers as it has one of the safest security system and fantastic features. macOS Mojave was rolled on WWDC 2018 and it is still popular. Catalina has many new fantastic and surprising features but like its previous versions, Catalina also doesn’t support reading and writing USB and external Hard Drives. We highly recommend paying for a third-party NTFS driver if you need to do this as the other solutions don’t work as well and are more work to set up.MacOS Catalina is formally launched and everyone loves to interact with it. In fact, we’ve had it corrupt data before. It isn’t guaranteed to work properly and could potentially cause problems with your NTFS file system. However, it’s off by default and requires some messing around in the terminal to enable it.

Apple’s Experimental NTFS-Write Support: The macOS operating system includes experimental support for writing to NTFS drives.

It’s slower than paid solutions and automatically mounting NTFS partitions in read-write mode is a security risk. Unfortunately, this take a bit of extra work to install, especially on Macs with the new System Integrity Protection feature, added in 10.11 El Capitan.

Free Third-Party Drivers: There’s a free and open-source NTFS driver you can install on a Mac to enable write support.These are paid solutions, but they’re easy to install and should offer better performance than the free solutions below. Paid Third-Party Drivers: There are third-party NTFS drivers for Mac that you can install, and they’ll work quite well.There are several options for this, and you’ll need to choose one:

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