The easiest method is to use NTFS driver for macOS software. You know the business, but for users, is there any way to let Mac write NTFS drives? Can you make the NTFS drive fully compatible with macOS or Mac OS X? Sure. Up to now, Mac operating systems, including macOS Catalina/Mojave/High Sierra/Sierra and Mac OS X El Capitan, only provide NTFS read support but deny NTFS write support. Additionally, if you use Boot Camp to create a Windows partition on your Mac, you will find you can't mount BOOTCAMP partition with read-write access either. NTFS is used by default on Windows platform, especially for system drive. NTFS is a file system developed by Microsoft, the competitor of Apple.

But Mac can't write to NTFS drives, including create, edit, copy, paste, delete, or transfer files on NTFS drive on Mac desktops and laptops. By Juno Posted to NTFS for Mac Tips, updated on May 29, 2020īefore you are led to the introduction of free NTFS for Mac, here is some background information in case you don't know.