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1.0 out of 5 stars
Use At Own Risk, July 14, 2009
WARNING on PARAGON NTFS for MAC OS X
I installed the Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX Trial today on a bog standard first generation Intel Mac Pro, running 10.5.7 and no other mods.
The installation asked for my password twice, which struck me as odd - but I did not have the foresight to cancel it. When asked to restart after successful completion I complied, and that's when the trouble started.
The computer restarted with nothing showing on the two standard Apple Cinema Displays. The fans which once used to adjust to the activity level of the computer are now constantly on high. The computer otherwise seems functional, despite that fact that it cannot find or display on any monitor in the house.
I accessed the computer over the network using screen sharing and ran the uninstaller for Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX - however this had no effect on the problems. In the system profiler under Graphics/Displays it says the system does not contain any supported devices.
Just how much damage the Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX trial managed I do not know. I know that the symptoms have stopped the computer from being usable, and include the system fans (& whatever system controls those) as well.
A quick trip to the Paragon support forums revealed a host of different problems people are experiencing, none of which were answered by Paragon.
I am writing to forewarn you, if there is any way you can avoid rolling the dice with Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX please do so, the results are unpredictable and in my case incapacitated the computer. Other people in the forums reported corruption of their NTFS and FAT partions causing complete data loss, and other issues that did not resolve themselves when Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX was uninstalled.
Do yourself a favor and steer clear - I certainly won't risk any other Paragon trials. I'm spending my day remote reinstalling Leopard in the hope it will resolve these issues - I hope by reading this you'll save yourself and your business that time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Paragon NTFS for Mac 7 does work on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, October 17, 2009
NOTICE: PARAGON NTFS for MAC 7 does work!
Despite W.Hogben's experience, I have to say that Paragon NTFS for Mac 7 does work on Mac OS X 10.6._ Snow Leopard. What you need is version 7.0.3 or higher for Paragon NTFS for Mac to be compatible with Snow Leopard. The specifications say that this also will work with the older Mac OS X 10.5._ Leopard (no Snow) and Mac OS X 10.4.6 (or higher) Tiger if that's what you have. You want the most up-to-date version of Paragon NTFS for Mac whether you have Snow Leopard or Leopard or Tiger. I've only tried this out with Snow Leopard which is what I currently have on my Macbook. If you want to try this out, go to Paragon and get the trial version and test it out yourself. What I suggest you do if you don't want to encounter the problem that W.Hogben had, you should back up your Mac's harddrive before trying out Paragon NTFS for Mac. I don't understand what happened to W.Hogben except maybe he had bad luck with a previous version of the software that he was trying out on Leopard (not Snow) - bad luck can happen. Anyways, if you are really frightened by what W.Hogben says, then back up your system and that's what you should do anyways to be able to recover from the disaster that W.Hogben encountered. What I do is on my Macbook is I have a 320 gigabyte harddrive that is partitioned into two drives where one drive is the "Macintosh HD" and the other drive is my "Data HD". And I have the "Macintosh HD" with the Mac OS X along with all my other software installed on it - that is backed up as a mirror image onto an external harddrive using Carbon Copy Cloner. My "Data HD" with all my documents, music, and videos are backed up onto another external harddrive. Whatever you do, I strongly suggest that you back up your mac's internal harddrive to an external harddrive for just in case something goes wrong. You simply want to be prepared. You don't want to be caught unprepared and so that you can restore your harddrive to the way it was before you installed any new really different software.
Anyways, Paragon NTFS for Mac 7 worked for me on my Macbook (white 13" model bought in 2007) running Mac OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard. I have a lot of software running on my Macbook including Parallels 4. You can get Parallels 4 over here on Amazon. If you are unsure about getting Paragon NTFS for Mac, there's always Parallels that you can use to run Windows on your mac to access NTFS drives. But for me, although I do have Parallels and Windows on my Macbook, I also wanted the capability to have the mac to have direct read and write access on NTFS drives without having to fire up Windows in Parallels. So from my experience, Paragon NTFS for Mac works for me under Snow Leopard. I've been able to both read and write to a USB Stick Drive that was formatted in NTFS and also a NTFS-formatted TrueCrypt volume on that USB stick. I was also able to both read and write to a USB external drive (a Toshiba harddrive) that is formatted in NTFS and also a NTFS-formatted TrueCrypt volume on that USB external drive. So Paragon NTFS for Mac 7 does actually work for me under Mac OS X 10.6_ Snow Leopard.
Now, your alternatives instead of using Paragon NTFS for Mac are to use: (1) Parallels with windows as previously mentioned - there is also Fusion which is like Parallels but I have no experience with Fusion; (2) being satisfied with the read-only access to NTFS drives that is built into Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger but no default ability to write to NTFS drives; (3) trying to turn on the NTFS ability to both read/write in Snow Leopard (you'll have to search for this on your favorite search engine; you have to go in Terminal and create a /etc/fstab file where you specify specific labels or ID's for particular NTFS drives that you know you will be using); or (4) try using the free NTFS-3G driver. As for (1), I've already mentioned Parallels and that's good if you want to settle for that where you are also doing everything you want in Windows. I can't speak for Boot Camp because I don't want to be dual booting back and forth between mac and windows. Some people like that, but I'd rather have Parallels where I can have both mac and windows on at the same time. With regard to (2), well, being satisfied with only read-only access to NTFS drives is not good enough for me. As for (3), I've tried setting up that /etc/fstab file to specify NTFS read-write access for certain drives, but that didn't work for me. And, from what I could understand (maybe I'm wrong) that was only good for specific NTFS drives that I had to specify. I would have re-edit that file if I were to use any other NTFS-formatted drives that were not specified. And with (4), that NTFS-3G driver seemed to be a little above my head to figure out. There is a commercial version of NTFS-3G, but you'll have to research that yourself.
Regardless of all those other options, I think the Paragon NTFS for Mac 7 driver software is further along ahead of everyone else and is just ready to install and use. If you are a mac user, then the chances are that you don't want to fuss too much with having to install something like this. If you are more of a windows user, then you may possibly be more inclined to fussing around with the other options before settling on using Paragon NTFS for Mac. In the end, my guess is that I think you may end up installing Paragon NTFS for Mac and be satisfied with it. But to be on the safe side, you may want to backup your harddrive if you are unsure about trying out Paragon NTFS for Mac 7. Thanks for reading this review.
P.S. Additonal comment: For those who have both Mac and PC, I would suggest getting: (1) Paragon NTFS for Mac 7 for your mac (as discussed in this review); and also consider (2) Macdrive 8 for your PC. With Paragon NTFS for Mac, as discussed above, I can directly read windows NTFS-formatted drives on my macbook. And with Macdrive, I can read mac-formatted drives on a windows-only PC. You don't have to get both, but I did because I wanted maximum flexibility to be able to access both types of drives (NTFS-formatted drives and mac-formatted drives) on either type of computer whether a Mac or a windows-only PC. Thanks for reading.
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