New Update Mounty for NTFS - UI for NTFS-3G driver for Apple Silicon

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Mounty for NTFS

Mounty for NTFS - a tiny tool for macOS to re-mount NTFS volumes in read-write mode.

mounty.app

Mounty now acts as user interface for the free available NTFS-3G driver.

Since macOS Ventura, the build-in mechanism to re-mount in read/write mode is removed, so Mounty now uses the open-source kernel driver NTFS-3G together with macFUSE. Design is still simple, but installation is more complex.

A bit of background​

In earlier versions of macOS before Ventura, the Apple kernel driver offers a function to re-mount NTFS drives in read/write mode, but this was hidden by default, only used by Bootcamp to support Windows on Mac. Mounty has made this function available for easy access. But with the new Apple Silicon architecture, Windows is not supported anymore, and Apple has removed the write capability for NTFS-formatted drives completely.

To make Mounty work again on macOS Ventura and up, a third-party kernel driver is now needed, and the only free-available solution here is NTFS-3G. Together with the macFUSE library, Mounty is working as before, and even better.

Release notes: Mounty for NTFS