A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes under Mac OS X 10.9+ in read-write mode.
Start the program and see it in action:
You will be notified if there is any volume connected to the computer which is NTFS formatted and ready to re-mount in read-write mode.
Mounty for NTFS comes without any decorations.
No additional driver will be installed. It simply makes use of the build-in mechanisms already provided by Mac OSX Mavericks - no strings attached.
From the icon in menu bar you can always bring a finder window to front to manage the contents of the mounted drive.
The colour of menu icon reports the current state:
inactive - nothing to mount
active - Volume available to re-mount
idle - Volume writable mounted
error - mount failed
Occasionally I need to share files with my colleagues via USB sticks. Since we are working on different platforms the sticks might be NTFS-formatted. No problem so far, there are several resources out to the web describing to accomplish this task, e.g.
I personally have chosen the more pragmatic way, just open a terminal and issue some mount commands like:
macbook:~ uwe$ sudo umount /Volumes/UNTITLED
macbook:~ uwe$ sudo mount -t ntfs -o rw,auto,nobrowse /dev/disk3s1 ~/ntfs-volume
However, tired of typing this over and over, I have written Mounty to accomplish exactly this - but in a much more convenient fashion. So, under the hood, it happens an unmount and a remount short after, followed by opening a Finder window pointing to the hidden mount point.
Please let me know if this tool is also useful to you; and do not hesitate to ask a question that might appear using Mounty.
This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as "not cleanly unmounted". There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.
Mounty will not delete anything by itself. Try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows.
This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to
the Manpage of xattr for further explanation.
If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with ls -l@ <filename>,
and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple.<attribute> <filename>, i.e.:
xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt