Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X Public Beta Testing

[nospamboz]

Will do some more thorough testing with several VMware VMs (XP x64, Vista x64, Longhorn RC0 i386).

Tried lots of copying scenarios between two USB NTFS disks in MacOS and
various Windows VMs, mounted within the VM and via VMware shared folders.
Nothing went wrong in the copying/reading/deleting/mounting/dismounting
(except once, see below) that I can attribute to Paragon. It worked great.

The only problem I had happened once and I couldn't reproduce it. I had
my iMac energy settings set to power down idle disks. Once in MacOS when
it did that to a Paragon volume, I opened it to get it going again, but instead
of the real contents there were a couple of plist files and a NIB file (that's
all I remember). I couldn't unmount the volume in the Finder, and ended
up having to use "umount -f". That still didn't get rid of the Finder volume
icon, only dragging to the Trash did that (and it went in the Trash, it didn't
eject). Re-plugging the drive brought everything back, and like I said,
I couldn't reproduce it.

I'm very impressed with B2. I'll definitely buy the discounted release.

 

[dfreerider]

Hi, I´m a bit of a mac newbie and I´m hoping someone can help me out.

I installed the first Beta, but how do I uninstall it? I can´t find my original dmg file for beta1, that I suspect contained an uninstall application, so now I´m completly lost on how to do this.

Kevin

 

[nospamboz]

I installed the first Beta, but how do I uninstall it? I can´t find my original dmg file for beta1, that I suspect contained an uninstall application, so now I´m completly lost on how to do this.

Here's what I'd try if you can't get the original beta package.

Get the Beta 2 dmg. Mount and open it.

Right click on the "Uninstall" package, choose "Show Package Contents".

Go into "Contents"/"Resources" and copy the "uninstall.sh" to the Desktop.
Eject the dmg.

Here's the tricky bit: Edit the copied "uninstall.sh" file, either with
TextWrangler or Terminal/vi - I don't think TextEdit will work.

You want to make the following changes in "uninstall.sh":

1) Line 5, change the product to "NTFS for Mac OS X Beta".
2) Delete the "if-then-fi" block at lines 113-119.

Save that, then execute it in Terminal with:

sudo ~/Desktop/uninstall.sh

(entering your usual administration password)

It might work. It's just a guess, as I don't have beta 1 to test it.

EDIT: Looking over the Beta 2 installation scripts, it looks important
to uninstall Beta 1 before installing Beta 2 so that the default Mac OS
NTFS handling is restored.

 

[flopticalcube]

Hi, I´m a bit of a mac newbie and I´m hoping someone can help me out.

I installed the first Beta, but how do I uninstall it? I can´t find my original dmg file for beta1, that I suspect contained an uninstall application, so now I´m completly lost on how to do this.

Kevin

PM me with an email address and I'll email the uninstaller for beta 1 to you.

 

[fwhh]

Today I got some really strange behavior, when I opened the NTFS Volume the content has changed totally. Suddently the folders had names like "Ressource 1" (i don't remember exactly) and so on, and there was an index.html. Strange. After a reboot it was back to normal...

 

[milkrocket]

Beta3 Rocks

Beta 3 is really great. Prev with Beta2 my drive would show up as a UNIX Executable File sometimes. Beta3 works great.

Also I get read speeds of 14 MBps compared to 2 MBps from my FAT32 Partition.

Both Partitions are on my iMac's internal disk.

 

[Anatoly]

Dear Forum Visitors,

I would like to inform you that I uploaded Beta 3 (I hope the last beta ).

NTFS partitions with Windows installed now appear in the "Startup disk" preference pane and other bugs were fixed.

Dear GuidoN,
The problem with deleting a huge folder should be fixed. Please check it.

Dear fotism;
Please check, the issues your have reported should be fixed in the Beta 3.


Dear greengreengreen,
Please check to browse your huge folder.

Dear Mr. Zarniwoop,
Thank you for our great feedback.
Unfortunately we have not compared the performance of our driver with Microsoft Vista NTFS driver, but we believe the performance should be almost the same. Please note, our tests shows that are driver has the same performance as HFS+ driver and in some cases even better.
We have not found any issue while testing the "Repair Disk" feature.

I tried partitioning an NTFS volume from diskutil (in Terminal) and for some reason every volume I created was called "NTFS" and seemed to ignore the name specified, although I could easily rename NTFS volumes after creation.

Thanks for this problem. We have fixed it already.

I am very sorry for the kernel panic. We will thoroughly test this problem within the next few days. Please let me know, how did you umount an external NTFS drive?

Dear rainforest1155,
Does the “/Library/Application Support/Paragon/” directory exist?

Dear nospamboz,
Please let me know, where did you find this string: "Buy Now for $19.95 for NTFS for Linux"?
I hope we fixed the weird issue you encountered with Beta 2.

Dear dfreerider,
Please install the Beta3 and uninstall it, then, Beta 1 and Beta 3 should be uninstalled. Let me know if it doesn't help and I will send you the Beta 1.

Dear fwhh,
The bug is fixed in the Beta 3. Thanks.

Thank you all, again.
I hope, if everything goes well, we will release the product in a week.
Anatoly.

 

[GuidoN]

Beta 3 asks for Serial number, although Beta 2 was uninstalled.

Did I miss something?

Kind regards,
GuidoN

 

[nospamboz]

Dear nospamboz,
Please let me know, where did you find this string: "Buy Now for $19.95 for NTFS for Linux"?
I hope we fixed the weird issue you encountered with Beta 2.

The price is still there on this page

http://www.paragon-software.com/file_system_drivers.htm

Right under the boxed linux graphic.

http://images.paragon-software.com/ntfs_linux_120.gif

I haven't gotten beta-3 to break yet. Good stuff.

 

[CLuv]

Anatoly,

Downloaded NTFSforMacOSXBeta3_2.dmg. Used the Beta 2 uninstaller to remove Beta 2, restarted, installed Beta 3, restarted, Windows Partition is gone. No longer on the Mac Desktop, not in Mac Finder, and not showing in startup disks preference pane. Tried to uninstall Beta 3_2 to see if my Windows Partition reappears, Beta 3_2 uninstaller says NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 not installed. This is obviously a major bug.
Any suggestions to retrieve the Windows Partition would be great and welcomed.
I can get into Windows fine by a restart and pressing the Alt key, just would be nice to have that partition accessible through OS X.

-CLuv

 

[Yuusharo]

Wonderful software. I ran this on a friend's MBP with my external NTFS hard drive and it worked fine. I intend to use this also on my future iMac, which should be shipping in a few days.

Question - is there an ETA for Leopard compatibility? I believe my machine will ship only with Leopard, and even if it did not, I would be forced to upgrade anyway for Boot Camp soon.

 

[dobermann69]

Windows Partition gone after installing Beta 3 (NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0.pkg)

Anatoly,

Downloaded NTFSforMacOSXBeta3_2.dmg. Used the Beta 2 uninstaller to remove Beta 2, restarted, installed Beta 3, restarted, Windows Partition is gone. No longer on the Mac Desktop, not in Mac Finder, and not showing in startup disks preference pane. Tried to uninstall Beta 3_2 to see if my Windows Partition reappears, Beta 3_2 uninstaller says NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 not installed. This is obviously a major bug.
Any suggestions to retrieve the Windows Partition would be great and welcomed.
I can get into Windows fine by a restart and pressing the Alt key, just would be nice to have that partition accessible through OS X.

-CLuv

Yeeeep, exactly the same here, word by word.
Can restart in windows by holding the 'option' key, but the partition is gone in Finder, Startup Disk, etc.
DiskUtility can't mount it (it sees it as 'untitled') or verify or nada.
Trying to uninstall and getting the same message as CLuv, "NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 not installed".
The only difference with him, is that I didn't have any previous beta installed.

OS is 10.5 retail and I've been using NTFS-3g with tiger before, but it didn't work just fine in Leopard.
Uninstalled NTFS-3g before installing NTFS for Mac, just in case.

Please, help me to get my windows partition back to life.
Cheers
gorka

 

[Anatoly]

Dear dobermann69 and CLuv,

Please try to install the new version I just have uploaded (...3_3.dmg).

The problem is that, we have a lot of different versions that consist of different files to be deleted after uninstalling.

Looking forward to hearing your results.
Anatoly.

 

[CLuv]

Anatoly,

Installed Beta3_3, restarted, no luck, still no Windows partition. At least this time I could uninstall it. Ran the uninstaller, restarted, Windows partition showed up on the desktop. So I decided to give the install another try for version 3_3. Installed, restarted, Windows partition gone. Got another version out there to try?

CLuv

 

[milkrocket]

Bate 3_3 dont work

Beta 3_3 dont work. Beta 3_2 works just great. I even tried it on a friends MB who has never installed 3rd Party NTFS Drivers. Same symptoms as CLuv ^^

 

[Anatoly]

Dear Forum Visitors,

We are sorry for this inconvenience. Please stop testing the beta 3_3 until we fix this problem (Windows partition disappears) and another one that we found when renaming/creating folders on NTFS partition.

Hope to fix soon....
Thanks,
Anatoly.

 

[CLuv]

Thanks for the feedback. I think I'm going to hold off for a bit, after seeing someone do an upgrade to Leopard, and on restart nothing happened for them. They didn't even get into their system, even when they tried "safe mode". Granted they did an upgrade, not an Archive & Install (which is what I plan).
I won't see Leopard until next week, so I have a little time left to test, but once Leopard is in my hands, I will probably wait until this is final and supports Leopard.

 

[xcuneytx]

with this can I move files between Mac OSX Leopard partition and Windows Vista partition (NTFS)?

 

[federicog]

It's not working for me. I tried with Beta 3_2 and 3_3, but none of my NTFS partitions show up. This is what I get in the console when booting up:

Oct 27 18:15:21 localhost diskarbitrationd[61]: disk1s2    hfs      0D0C224F-9B6A-386C-9639-2B56A6FDF489 Macintosh HD            /
Oct 27 18:15:21 localhost diskarbitrationd[61]: unable to mount /dev/disk1s1 (status code 0x00000001).
Oct 27 18:15:21 localhost diskarbitrationd[61]: disk1s1    ntfs     00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Windows

Any ideas?
Thanks!

 

[bobby.rush]

3.3beta not working on leopard.

 

[CLuv]

Anatoly,

I'm now on Leopard, I guess I'll wait until the is a Leopard compatible version to work with. Thank you for your help and your team's help.

Sincerely,

CLuv

P.S. - If you haven't gotten Leopard, it's amazing.

 

[ethanhunt123]

Where can i get the 3.2 version ? Tried using 3.3 but it did not work. I use Tiger BTW though Leopard should be in mail.

 

[federicog]

Here es 3_2: http://download.paragon-software.com/macosx/beta/NTFSforMacOSXBeta3_2.dmg

It didn't work for me either (using Tiger).

 

[SpookTheHamster]

If it's unsafe to use Beta 3.2 or 3.3, where can I get hold of an older and safer version?

 

[federicog]

Well, I don't think there is a final version available yet, so all of the existing beta's are kind of unsafe. Here you can find them all:

http://download.paragon-software.com/macosx/beta/

I tested 3_3 and 3_2 (in that order) but none of them worked, NTFS drives were never mounted Using Tiger.

If you find a version that works for you, please tell us which one you're using. And remember these are all beta, so you shouldn't use them unless you backup all the data stored in the NTFS drives (although noone in this thread complained about data loss... yet)

Good Luck!