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NTFS drive in Disk Utility Why cant macOS just write NTFS NTFS is a proprietary file system standard from Microsoft used in Windows since the early 90s.

Microsoft is not providing a full specification of NTFS as open source standards and it is quite possible that Apple would need to pay pricey licenses in order to fully use it in their systems.

And why would they support the protocol of their main competitor How can macOS write NTFS There are several ways to do so.

You can use paid software like Paragon NTFS for Mac or Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera.

Enabling NTFS write in macOS First, you will need to download and install the latest version of FUSE for macOS.

After that make sure you have Command Line Tools for Xcode installed.

Install Homebrew package manager if you dont have it and install package ntfs-3g.

Restart or shut down your Mac and while starting, press Command R key combination.

Disable System Integrity Protection with command: csrutil disable Restart your Mac and go to your normal macOS.

Apple is trying to protect you more by making some crucial parts of the file system read-only and we have to make it writable again.

Until next restart.

Enter this command into your Terminal: sudo mount -uw After that, we can just back up the old NTFS handler and replace it with the new one.

You will also have your read-only parts of system protected again.

Unfortunately, you have to repeat this procedure every time you update to a new major release of macOS.

Are there alternatives to NTFS Yes, if you want to share external HDD between Mac and PC, you can format your HDD to exFAT file system.

You will lose all the data on disk during format but otherwise, its usable.

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If you want to stick with the Apple ecosystem, you are free to use Apple APFS or HFS.

If you want to be compatible with everybody and everything, use old FAT32.

But you will be able to place there files of maximum size 4GB.

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