In our case “disk5s2” this will be different for you. Take a note of the device label (bottom right corner). There you will find your external drive on the left hand column, right click on it and choose Unmount. Cant edit files on NTFS drive from your Mac External disk is read-only on Mac NTFS drive shows blank on Apple Silicon M1 Mac NTFS for Mac not working aft.You can find this in Finder > Applications > Utilities or Search “Disk Utility” on Launchpad First plug-in your NTFS formatted external hard drive or thumb drive into a free USB port or dock.Step by Step to Enable Writing to NTFS Drive on MacOS Without Additional Software Note that this is a temporary solution only, offered by Apple in its experimental stage and is not supported.
But do not fret, we have the answer here and it does not require buying additional software to make it work. You can’t even find create folder option from your pop-up menu. But what happens when you need to transfer files or write to the NTFS drive.
Simple enough, just plug it into a free USB port and read away. So you have data written on NTFS file system that you need to read on MacOS. Here is a quick and easy hack to enable writing to NTFS Drive without installing any software. In a mixed environment, MacOS and Windows PC, you often get USB Thumb Drives or External Hard Drive formatted in NTFS file system that you can read but not write on a Mac.
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