mouNTFS

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Write to NTFS drives on your Mac with native macOS dialogs that feel right at home. Since macOS lost NTFS write support, we got you covered!

🎯 Simple & Focused

One script that does one thing well - mounting NTFS drives with write access. No GUI bloat, just clean functionality.

🔐 Native Experience

Uses macOS's native file picker and authentication dialogs. Feels right at home on your Mac.

🤖 AI Co-developed

An experiment in human-AI collaboration. All code is written by AI, with humans focusing on design, review, and direction. This must be a fun ride!

🚀 To use:

Double-click in Finder 
mountfs.sh
 or Run in your favorite terminal 
./mountfs.sh

Then follow the prompts!

💻 Installation

0. First, you'll need Homebrew for all the cool stuff 🍺

1. Install required dependencies:

brew install --cask macfuse
brew install gromgit/fuse/ntfs-3g-mac

2. Change to where you want to keep the script (don't get lost 😉):

cd ~/Downloads     # or wherever you prefer

3. Download and make executable:

curl -L -o mountfs.sh https://get.mountfs.sh
chmod +x mountfs.sh

4. Configure security settings:

Note: These security settings are required by macOS to allow third-party file system drivers. They only need to be configured once, unless you uninstall or reinstall the drivers. Refer to macFUSE wiki for more details.

For more detailed information, including usage instructions, troubleshooting, and alternatives, please refer to our GitHub README.

🌟 Contribution

🎉 Contributions and suggestions are welcome! Feel free to open issues or pull requests.

🤝 As a human-AI collaboration project:

🛡️ Given wide-spread AI concerns, safety review is welcome.