Fortunately, there was an item in the knowledgebase explaining how to uninstall, which is not obvious otherwise. I could find no help for this problem in Paragon’s online knowledgebase. In this case, the command had no effect on the observed behavior. On OSX you can reset the “in use” flag with the command “chflags nouchg”. A typical response, as on this board, is “I’ve never heard of such a thing as you describe.” Yet, it seems quite a few real people actually have heard of such a thing.
On Apple-sponsored discussion boards and online help, there is little to no help for this error. The error message was, “ is used by Mac OS X and can’t be opened.” There was no obvious pattern regarding which files might be so locked. The drive was readable and writable by Linux and Windows systems, but on OSX some files could not be opened. Unfortunately, I didn’t test it quite enough before making that decision. I tried Paragon’s NTFS for Mac and decided to purchase it. Here’s how I regained access to my cross-system hard drive this weekend.Īt first, I thought it would be best to go with a commercial product, as there would be technical support and legal recourse in the event the product corrupted my data. So, people have to keep coming up with solutions. The old procedure to enable write support for NTFS no longer worked.Īpple seems determined to prevent people from having a simple, seamless way to share files with non-Apple systems other than an online service like Dropbox. One fine day last week after a system software update, my Air lost the ability to write to NTFS. On Linux, package ntfs-3g supports NTFS, and on OSX the procedure described in this article worked fine until recently. I’ve been using Microsoft’s NTFS as a common denominator. The challenge is that different operating systems use different filesystems by default. I find it convenient to share files between systems using an external hard drive, including Windows, OSX, and Linux.
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