If you team the performance of the chip with the new macOS Big Sur, you will realize what the latest Mac devices are capable of. Don’t get me wrong, the new M1 chip and the Big Sur OS have a lot going on for themselves. However, Apple has again failed to answer the thousands of requests on forums for NTFS. So, it should not be an issue for M1 Mac viewing files on the NTFS disk. We’ve called Apple Care. They said the problem was the M1 Mac comes with macOS Big Sur installed but the new macOS does not recognize drives using NTFS. How to fix M1 Mac not showing files or folders on an NTFS external drive? Step 1: Back up files. Step 2: Open Disk Utility application. Step 3: Connect the external NTFS hard drive to the Mac and find it in the left disk list of Disk Utility. Step 4: Right-click the drive and choose Erase or select the disk and click on Erase button at the top tool bar in the window. Open, edit, copy, move, or delete files stored on Windows NTFS-formatted USB drives on your Mac. When you get a new Mac, it’s only able to read Windows NTFS-formatted USB drives. To add, save, or write files to your Mac, you need an add-on NTFS-driver. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera is easy-to-use software that makes this possible. IBoysoft NTFS for Mac is the best Microsoft NTFS for Mac solution, fully compatible with macOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon M1 Mac, try free for 7 days.
Some questions that might come up
My NTFS disk disappears from Desktop when using Mounty
Unfortunately this is by design.
Mounty is using the Apple kernel driver. It allows read/write mount of NTFS drives only with the 'nobrowse' option. The mount point becomes hidden and disappears from Desktop and Finder menu. To make it easier to re-locate the drive I have added the 'Show in Finder' option in Mounty menu.
My USB stick will not re-mount. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this doesn't help.
This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC. If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as 'not cleanly unmounted'. There might be some dirty sectors left and Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.
Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!
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This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. The NTFS partition might be marked as 'dirty' and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation. Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w, i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance, like Paraogn Harddisk Manager or Tuxera Disk Manager.
Sometimes the files are grayed out and cannot be modified anymore.
This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to the Manpage of xattr for further explanation. If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with ls -l@ <filename>, and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple.<attribute> <filename>, i.e.: xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt Michael brecker licks pdf.
Unable to re-mount in read/write mode when trying to mount Windows 10 partition
If you try to mount a Windows System partition, Mounty might fail when Hibernation feature is enabled. There is a Fast Start feature in Windows which might be enabled by default, and this is causing the drive to be locked. Within Windows running, you need to run the command powercfg /hibernate off in an admin powershell and restart Windows to disable this feature and remove the lock to enable it for Mounty. Thanks to Art Schultz pointing that out.
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Mounty will not recognize a drive or re-mount read/write even if the drive is NTFS formatted actually
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We have seen that certain third-party NTFS tools will re-name the volume kind property of an NTFS drive to something other than 'ntfs'. In this case it might happen that the macOS kernel driver ist not able to re-mount in read/write mode anymore. Thanks to Giovanni for his patience to reveal this issue during a remote debug session :)