[HyperX]

I searched this forum for an app that would allow me to write to NTFS formatted drives, but I can't see it.

Here is the deal. I am a switcher, got a mac pro about 3 months ago now. I have a bunch of usb drives at work that I bring home with a slew of files. Other co-workers share these usb drives as needed. I can read the files from NTFS formatted drives but I can't write to them. I see that this is an issue many have. Searching google, there are references to some app that would work on Mac OS to read and write NTFS. Does such an app exist?

Switching the format to fat 32 is not an option. I can work through parallels on these files, but parallels only supports USB1.0 speeds. Please help!

[jasong]

Not a whole lot of good info here. MS hasn't opened up NTFS, so Apple is left reverse engineering it, and since the slightest mistake in writing to a filesystem can hose the disk, they have understandably not allowed it. While your current situation may be bad, imagine how much worse it would be if you trashed one of those drives while using it on your Mac Pro. Worse for you, and worse for Apple who would have to live with the PR nightmare.

That being said, if you can manage the USB 1.0 speeds of Parallels, this hint should help you out.
macosxhints.com - 10.4: Use Parallels for write access to NTFS devices
There is, apparently, limited NTFS write ability in the OS X NTFS driver, but it sounds like you are pretty much guaranteed a disaster if you use it.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.p...p;p=16170&

Sorry I didn't have better news for you, and good luck.

[HyperX]

Originally Posted by jasong 

Not a whole lot of good info here. MS hasn't opened up NTFS, so Apple is left reverse engineering it, and since the slightest mistake in writing to a filesystem can hose the disk, they have understandably not allowed it. While your current situation may be bad, imagine how much worse it would be if you trashed one of those drives while using it on your Mac Pro. Worse for you, and worse for Apple who would have to live with the PR nightmare.

That being said, if you can manage the USB 1.0 speeds of Parallels, this hint should help you out.
macosxhints.com - 10.4: Use Parallels for write access to NTFS devices
There is, apparently, limited NTFS write ability in the OS X NTFS driver, but it sounds like you are pretty much guaranteed a disaster if you use it.
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.p...p;p=16170&

Sorry I didn't have better news for you, and good luck.

Thanks Jason! I will poke around some more. I guess I can always launch bootcamp and then run at full speeds.