Problem after Catalina update

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After updating my 2012 Mac to macOS Catalina it will not show my external hard drives. The drive is recognized on the disk utility but when I try to mount it I got the following message "Could not mount “Backup HD”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error 49244.)"I tried to google for help but to no avail.
 
$m@Rt@$$ said:
Is this your time machine backup drive? My time machine kept working just fine.
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No just normal external drives that I use to store and watch downloaded movies . The iMac does not recognize the drives anymore , never had this problem before the latest update
 
koos said:
No just normal external drives that I use to store and watch downloaded movies . The iMac does not recognize the drives anymore , never had this problem before the latest update
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What format is your drive? Did you perhaps use NTFS drivers before your update?
 
koos said:
According to Disk Utility it is a Tuxera NTFS system on my drive. Never had problems before ?
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Yeah, so just as a word of note, MacOS does not support the NTFS file system out the box.

I would suggest updating and reinstalling Tuxera, which is the program that's running on your machine that is enabling your mac to access NTFS drives.
 
koos said:
According to Disk Utility it is a Tuxera NTFS system on my drive. Never had problems before ?
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Catalina Made changes to extensions, which I recall is used by Tuxera. Rather remove it, restart and try again. MacOS can read NTFS out of the box.
 
creeper said:
Catalina Made changes to extensions, which I recall is used by Tuxera. Rather remove it, restart and try again. MacOS can read NTFS out of the box.
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I've always used some driver utility to access NTFS drives, as they could always be read but not written to.
 
The only problem I had is with an Adobe program. Otherwise it’s been plain sailing.

You cannot run any 32 bit apps
 
I had that issue as well. Updated Tuxera and the issue was solved. I reverted back to Mojave by reformatting my MacBook Pro though. Didn't realize how many 32bit apps I still use until I couldn't any longer. Will give it a go in a few months once all my app vendors have sorted themselves out for Catalina.
 
Only issues I had was permissions for apps which it didn’t auto add eg vmware fusion.

Fixed that along with ntfs write.
 
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