How to write to NTFS drive in MacOS

How to write to NTFS drives (USBs, or external Hard drives) under the newest MacOS Sierra? It’s quite easy to do. Let’s look at our following free solutions.

Enable Writing to NTFS NTFS drives (USBs, or external Hard drives) through Terminal in MacOS Sierra

The following steps is not going to enable NTFS read/write support in MacOS Sierra. You have to repeat them each on each individual NTFS drive plugged into the Mac.
Instruction Map: Determine the Drive Name —> Enable write support to the targeted Drive using Terminal.

Step 1: How to know the Drive Name of the Drive?

Get the NTFS drive connected to the Mac until it is mounted. You then are able to see the NAME of the NTFS Volume from the Finder Window.

Step 2: Enable write support using Command lines

• Launch Terminal (Found in Applications/Utilities), then enter the following command line.

  sudo nano /etc/fstab

  After that, the fstab file then must be called in blank by default.
  
• Enter the following command line.

LABEL=NAME none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse

• Please notice that: The NAME must be replaced by Your Drive Name.
  
• Press exactly Ctrl + O to save and Ctrl + X to end the Terminal. Done! You now must be able to write to the NTFS drive right now.

Do you have to repeat the all above steps in the next time when you plug the Drive into your Mac again? No!

After the NTFS Drive is unmounteFinder window, click on Go (on the top menu), then choose Go to Folder, then enter the /Volumes. The NTFS partition must appears then, and you are able to write the Data into it.

d (you take it off), then plug it into the mac again in the next time, the Volume no longer exists at the left pane side any more. To find it, From

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