How to write to NTFS drives in Mac OS X

NTFS writing is not officially supported in Mac OS X

Problem

By default, Mac OS X can not write to NTFS formatted drives (see here for more information) without a third party driver.

Solution

1. Open Terminal.
   1. Go to your Applications folder.
   2. Open the Utilities folder.
   3. Open the Terminal application.
2. Enter the following code and press Enter:
   sudo nano /etc/fstab
3. You will need to enter your password and press Enter.
   • It won’t show any characters when you type.
   • If you do not have a password then set one first.
4. A terminal text editor will appear. Take note of the name of your NTFS drive. For this example, we will assume the drive is labelled “Windows”.
5. Type in the following, replacing “Windows” with the name of your drive:
   LABEL=Windows none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
6. Press Ctrl+O, then press Enter.
7. Press Ctrl + X to exit the text editor.
8. Open Disk Utility.
   1. Go to your Applications folder.
   2. Open the Utilities folder.
   3. Open the Disk Utility application.
9. On the left, click on the NTFS drive.
10. At the top, click on the Unmount button.
11. This will change to a Mount button. Click it again and close Disk Utility.
12. Unfortunately, this will stop the drive being shown in Finder. To workaround this, put the following line into Terminal and press Enter:
    open /Volumes
13. This will show all the currently connected drives. From here, you can drag your NTFS drive to the sidebar in Finder and have it kept there.