Writing to a NTFS volume

Dear all,
a month ago I bought an external drive (WD - My Passport) to store my iPhoto library as it was taking too much disk space. Although I've read that Snow Leopard does not provide default writing capabilities for NTFS, everything worked fine since a week ago, when I suddenly noticed that the volume apparently lost its writing permissions.
I've seen a bunch of references talking about changing the fstab, but diskutil is not providing me any UUID! I've also seen that some people solves this problem with NTFS-3G, but I've it looks like it does not support 10.6.
Any hint on that? Since then I cannot update my iPhoto library and is being really annoying!
Cheers

No offense, but I could never get it to work reliably for me. I admit I have not used it for almost a
year (since 10.5.x). It would work acceptably at times, but other times it would be slow as molasses
(copying files) or Finder would be lock up. Sometimes when copying from NTFS volumes OS X would
lock up tight and the only way out was to cut the power. I noticed the problems would surface
mostly when some other Mac Fuse dependent programs were being run at the same time (such
as Parallels Desktop).
To be fair though, I suspect the Apple 10.5.x Hard disk driver (for my machine) as being partly to
blame as most of the external disk mounting and lockup problems disappeared when I upgraded
to Snow Leopard.
I suspect Mac Fuse also. I have had various versions of Mac Fuse that didn't work well on my
machine either. When I first put Snow Leopard on my machine I had to use Tomas Carnecky's
compiled version of MacFuse 2.1.7. to get True Crypt working. Now they updated True Crypt and
I have had to use the new Public 2.1.5 Beta version of Mac Fuse to get the updated True Crypt
working.
Being a software developer I am sure you are aware of the endless problems various hardware
combinations and configurations can dish out. No offense, but I had to switch to Paragon NTFS
to be able to get a solution that worked reliably on my machine.
Some folks use your NTFS-3G product without any problems whatsoever, but like I said,
different hardware combos yield different results.
I have not tried Tuxera, actually I had not even heard of it until a couple of days ago.
The name is cute, how (if you don't mind telling) or who, came up with the label?
Linus Torvolds and that familiar Penguin comes to mind when I here the name.
It's not because NTFS-3G is free, that I don't use it.
I am a die hard "free" fan, I love "free", as in free lunch, free software, free money and of course
free BEER!
Kj ♘

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But if one day Apple add support of ntfs write
I seriously doubt Apple will ever do that. It isn't worth their time to put that much development into supporting NTFS write capability.
Paragon went through Microsoft's validation testing and approved it.
Note that I already stated NTFS-3G is free. Also note that there are two different versions of NTFS-3G on the page I linked to. Tuxera NTFS is not free, but is twice as fast as the free version towards the bottom of the page. Both support 64 or 32 bit OS X startup.

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No offense, but I could never get it to work reliably for me. I admit I have not used it for almost a
year (since 10.5.x). It would work acceptably at times, but other times it would be slow as molasses
(copying files) or Finder would be lock up. Sometimes when copying from NTFS volumes OS X would
lock up tight and the only way out was to cut the power. I noticed the problems would surface
mostly when some other Mac Fuse dependent programs were being run at the same time (such
as Parallels Desktop).
To be fair though, I suspect the Apple 10.5.x Hard disk driver (for my machine) as being partly to
blame as most of the external disk mounting and lockup problems disappeared when I upgraded
to Snow Leopard.
I suspect Mac Fuse also. I have had various versions of Mac Fuse that didn't work well on my
machine either. When I first put Snow Leopard on my machine I had to use Tomas Carnecky's
compiled version of MacFuse 2.1.7. to get True Crypt working. Now they updated True Crypt and
I have had to use the new Public 2.1.5 Beta version of Mac Fuse to get the updated True Crypt
working.
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combinations and configurations can dish out. No offense, but I had to switch to Paragon NTFS
to be able to get a solution that worked reliably on my machine.
Some folks use your NTFS-3G product without any problems whatsoever, but like I said,
different hardware combos yield different results.
I have not tried Tuxera, actually I had not even heard of it until a couple of days ago.
The name is cute, how (if you don't mind telling) or who, came up with the label?
Linus Torvolds and that familiar Penguin comes to mind when I here the name.
It's not because NTFS-3G is free, that I don't use it.
I am a die hard "free" fan, I love "free", as in free lunch, free software, free money and of course
free BEER!
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Slax wrote:
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x713c9f02
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1p1 * 0 1026047 513024 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
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If by "the new system software" you mean OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you may want to repost that portion of your query in the Mavericks forum at https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mavericks . I haven't made the leap yet.
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