Paragon NTFS 11 not recognising Boot Camp partition or NTFS external hard drives!
Hi guys,
So i had Paragon NTFS activated and working fine back when i was on Lion. Aftering upgrading to OS X mavericks, it was still working fine and recognising my boot camp drive, and any other NTFS capable ex.hard drive. My Paragon NTFS version back then was 10.1.xx
When paragon released their official v11.1.263, which supported OS X Mavericks officialy, i thought i would upgrade and benefit from that support. Ever since i upgrade, paragon is installed, activated, but not showing any NTFS drives in the menu. All my NTFS drives are therefore read only, and i cant transfer anything.
Any idea how to solve this issue? Thanks
Interesting. Comes with? you didn't have either before? Paragon is commercial and is now v. 10.0, they were the only one keeping updated and was supporting 10.7.4. I would not enable more than one.
For writing to HFS Paragon has theirs but probably give the nod to MacDrive there.
I never do an upgrade to a new OS over the old system, I backup (clone) and format the drive with the new OS and do the install so whatever is there I know is clean and also to keep from carrying around leftovers from years and systems past.
I would assme Paragon is limited. Try their site and knowledge base?
MacDrive
http://www.mediafour.com/updates/macdrive
Paragon HFS
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/
Paragon NTFS
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs-for-mac-os-x
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/
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Hi, We are getting wrong tax condition base value if an item having particular combination of inactive condition exclusion items- we have x abd y condition types which are inactive. if x is having 0.01 then system is considering y value for tax condi
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Downloading drivers and applicati
Hi, I have a Zen V Plus player, recently my computer was stolen and so was the installation CD for the player. Now I have a new laptop but I don't have the software por my Zen V Plus. I have tried in the support page in creative.com but I can't see a
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Upgrade DB from 10.1.0.3 to 10.2.0.1
Hi, We are thinking of upgrading Databse from 10.1.0.3 to 10.2.0.1 Our current Application Server version is 9.0.4.1 which works fine on 10.1.0.3, do we need to upgrade AS to go to DB version 10.2.0.1. If yes what version should the AS be? Also any k
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Hi to all, we've two internal WLC which belong to the same MG (the default one), and one DMZ WLC which belongs to another MG. All are running OS 4.2.61 After configuring Mobility Group using the "edit all" inserting the WLC IP address and MAC of the
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Iphone 6 been restoring from icloud backup for 9 days and still not finished?
I got my iPhone 6 on the 19th when it came out. It's an ATT 128 gb model. I started restoring from icloud backup on that Friday (9 days ago). It still is saying it's restoring from backup. Daily it's asking me to delete the data or keep downloadin