NTFS on Mac OSX Mountain Lion really sucks...

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Using the latest Mountain Lion compatible version of Paragon NTFS for Mac, NTFS writing really sucks on Mountain Lion compared to Snow Leopard. First Finder won't index my NTFS external drives. It did and still does so under Snow Leopard, but not under this. Secondly copying a larger number of files to an NTFS external disk really sucks. For some reason Mountain Lion creates the files first, each at 0 bytes. Then it freezes. Then when I try copying again it wants me to overwrite the files or skip them all, but if I choose any option at all, it says the file is in use, and bombs out.

Using Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 10.0 (English). What sucks is now I have to use EasyFind instead of Spotlight.
 
Are you sure its not Paragon that sucks now?
 
Well I have mountain lion and ver 10 of paragon ntfs and don't experience the freezing issue.

Writing is definitely slower than windows but not so much that its going to make a difference in my every day life.

Perhaps something else is not kosher in your system.
 
OS X Fuse + NTFS-3G still seems to work fine for the Mountain Lion Mac at our office. Don't know what performance is like though.
 
bwana said:
Are you sure its not Paragon that sucks now?
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Both suck, friend.

But what gets me the most is Mountain Lion. It is able to write to the NTFS disk because the driver is installed and yes, unless I copy lots of files (>100) I get no problems. But no, it just won't search NTFS external drives. Snow Leopard does this without issues. I've tried using Terminal to run the little tricks Apple fan sites suggest but no banana.

BTW all this on new Apple hardware.
 
IceDreama said:
Well I have mountain lion and ver 10 of paragon ntfs and don't experience the freezing issue.

Writing is definitely slower than windows but not so much that its going to make a difference in my every day life.

Perhaps something else is not kosher in your system.
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It's a brand new system from iStore so it's Apple which is not kosher :). I don't get the problem when copying a small number of files. That works well.
However what I dislike the most is SpotLight not being able to search external NTFS disks, something which works with Paragon under (Snow) Leopard. Anyway it's not the end of the world.

Are you able to search external NTFS volumes under Mt Lion?
 
I had to enable spotlight to index on the drive using;

sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/"Seagate Backup Plus Drive"

However, it never index the files on the drive, only new files I add.
 
VG008 said:
I had to enable spotlight to index on the drive using;

sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/"Seagate Backup Plus Drive"

However, it never index the files on the drive, only new files I add.
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I tried that as well, many times. Does not work.
 
Download Onyx, a free tool for OS X maintenance. Select Re-index Spotlight. You will have to restart and it will take up to 1 hour. It should then index the seagate drive in full
 
I use Tuxera NTFS - was transfering (and still am) a lot of data to and from NTFS drives and it shows very good performance...
 
zippy said:
why buy a Mac and then try to turn it into Windows ?
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I know of two (and I suspect this is a fairly common occurence) cases because, as it happens, people like the way they're built but their business-critical apps require Windows. And, as it happens, Macs (mostly, the new 15" retina model is a REAL pain) make for fairly decent 'doze machines.
 
bdt said:
I know of two (and I suspect this is a fairly common occurence) cases because, as it happens, people like the way they're built but their business-critical apps require Windows. And, as it happens, Macs (mostly, the new 15" retina model is a REAL pain) make for fairly decent 'doze machines.
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run the windows apps on windows, the mac apps on mac. run a database server/web server/file server on linux. well thats how I would do it. ftp to move files, which can be automated with cron/schedulers etc. simple. no need to overcomplicate things, unless you like experimenting :D
 
Don't blame Apple for the third parties poor attempt to support someone else's product.

Just don't use an NTFS drive to write to if it's such a big problem.
 
bdt said:
I know of two (and I suspect this is a fairly common occurence) cases because, as it happens, people like the way they're built but their business-critical apps require Windows. And, as it happens, Macs (mostly, the new 15" retina model is a REAL pain) make for fairly decent 'doze machines.
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In that case use VMWare Fusion or Parallels.

Or even good old free Virtualbox.
 
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