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Originally Posted by elcreative
Don't quite follow the "...has to be deliberate." OS X recognises NTFS natively now and has for a couple of iterations... I even leave some of my external drives as NTFS so that I can use from Mac and also just plug in to PC without having to install additional software such as MacDrive... and older versions of OS X can be made fully at home to NTFS with an add-on...
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When I hook my external black NTFS hard drive up to the giant screen iMac at houses where I babysit in order to show a movie, I can read the files and play them off of NTFS for sure.
However it is read only unless I install some after market thing from Paragon (not going to do on someone else's computer). I cannot delete the movie once shown. I cannot save a cute home made set of Photobooth images to my hard drive. Just read only.
VFAT? Sure! NTFS? Nope.
But I don't blame Apple as I have been told that NTFS is a Microsoft intellectual property and I don't expect other companies to secure licenses to technology of rival companies. That said, my Linux has been fully read/write to NTFS for several major version numbers (since before the appearance of the iMacs in question) now so I would be surprised if Apple didn't make a kitty that could do the same. And why it took them so long.