I basically slept with my Macbook on my bed to do that.įor any Mac users who still has data on NTFS formatted drives lying around that you consider important, I'd advise to transfer all your NTFS files into the exFAT system (Mac and Win read/writable) as soon as you can before your storage gets too huge like mine did. I ended up spending 2 nights painstakingly splitting the transfers folder by folder so I could catch the problematic files and delete them before retrying. Macfuse will install NTFS filesystem (kernel) on your macOS and. Make sure you have Command Line Tools for Xcode and Homebrew package manager installed. That'd cause Finder to hang as well, and I'd have to eventually abort, reboot my Mac and restart the process over and over. Another free way to write NTFS drives in macOS Ventura is using the NTFS-3G and MacFuse. I figured out eventually that the apps ran into difficulty reading some random files (say 1 out of several hundred) so the entire process would stall. I tried two backup apps for that (Chronosync and Get Backup Pro) and both would keep freezing halfway (unresponsive) while transferring large folders (couple hundred GBs). I only encountered some difficulty a few weeks ago when I finally decided to transfer all the NTFS data into a new exFAT external drive for peace of mind. Using Paragon NTFS for Mac, I was also able to read/write without problems for years. When I migrated to the Mac system in 2015, I had a 2TB Samsung backup drive on NTFS.

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