Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X Public Beta Testing

[Anatoly]

Dear federicog,

Unfortunately we can't reproduce this problem.

Please let me know your system version (10.x.x), platform (Intel or PPC) and how and where (system) the folders were created?

Dear nitant,

1. Please remove the Beta 3 before installing Beta 4.
2. Beta 4 works well as well.
3. You don't need to test this option. Serial number will unlock the trial version.

Thank you,
Anatoly.

 

[rainforest1155]

Dear rainforest1155,
Uninstall the Beta 2 and then install Beta 4. Beta 4 should works without any problem.

I all ready tried the Beta 4. I experienced a crash of OS X during copying lots of things around on an external USB drive (moving stuff from one partition to another partition on the USB drive), but apart from that I was able to copy 100 GB from my Laptop to the USB drive without problems.

I noticed that the disk space (remaining, free space) isn't updated until you unplug and connect the drive again. Are you aware of this issue?

Haven't been able to see if removing Beta 4 gives me back read-only support on Tiger due to having archived and installed Leopard. Should Beta4 work with Leopard as well?

Thanks,
Sebastian

 

[federicog]

The folders were created by iPhoto in Tiger. There were some other directories with the same problem I think :S

 

[milkrocket]

Final Version Already

Is NTFS_for_Mac_OS_X_6.0.dmg the final version?? Same as Beta 4?

Also do I get a serial number?

BTW How bout a Mac Drive Clone?? I think MacDrive is a horrible piece of Bloatware. A Simple app that allows access to files would be great.

 

[MaFL]

Hi,

2 issues...

Copying big files (>4gb) doesn´t work.
An error window occurs telling the operation could not be completed because of an unexpected error (Error code 0)

Free/used space is only updated on mount.

Regards
Matt

 

[Anatoly]

Dear federicog,

We have investigated your problem.
How to reproduce it:
1. Install MacFUSE + NTFS-3g;
2. Create/copy folders with characters like à or è to NTFS;
3. Uninstall NTFS-3g+MacFUSE.

The default and our NTFS driver will show the problem on this NTFS partition.

According to our investigation you used MacFUSE + NTFS-3g before to create these folders.

Thank you,
Anatoly.

 

[federicog]

According to our investigation you used MacFUSE + NTFS-3g before to create these folders.

That's probably true, since I've been using it for a loooong time. I suppose I'll have to rename all of them in Windows

Thanks!

 

[LGFelix]

Symbols in file names

I installed Beta 4, and on an NTFS-formatted volume, I was able to modify a Word file named AGEN622.doc to AGEN6°χdoc and successfully open the renamed file. This is on a (relatively) new 24" iMac 2.8GHz running OS X10.4.10

 

[hibachirat]

beta 4

I was having a major issue with 3_3 in Leopard where I could only browse the top two folder levels of a USB external drive. Trying to drill down any further would simply not display any subfolders or files. Beta 4 seems to have cured this. No other issues yet.

 

[Anatoly]

Dear rainforest1155,

We have fixed the problem with updating disk info, thanks. Please note, the beta 4 doesn’t contain this fix.

Dear nitant,

Unfortunately we are not planning to develop a clone for MacDrive.

Dear MaFL,

Thank you for finding this problem. This problem relates to Leopard only and we are fixing it now.

Thank you all,
Anatoly.

 

[Anatoly]

Dear Forum Visitors,

Thank you all very much for your help with testing Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0. We have just released it (http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/). As I promised the most active beta testers will be provided with the product for free and the rest will have 30% discount.

The most active beta testers are:
SDAVE;
phampton81;
ScienceMac;
fwhh;
fotism;
GuidoN;
greengreengreen;
rainforest1155;
nospamboz;
nitant;
federicog;
CLuv.

The rest testers are:
pamm@netcabo.pt;
flopticalcube;
MacRumorUser;
dtdrpepper;
LinhMy;
Jack Flash;
fucayama;
dtaye;
Mr. Zarniwoop;
dfreerider;
Yuusharo;
dobermann69;
tsehov;
Jkilla;
dreq;
papypaprika;
frankglez;
MaFL;
LGFelix.

Please send me your names and emails as a private message and I will provide you with the product or discount.

Please don't stop to post your feedback to this thread. We will carefully read it and improve the product according to your requirements.

Thank you all,
Anatoly.

 

[SDAVE]

Hi Anatoly, thank you.

By the way, I was using Paragon NTFS beta1 (2 and 3 caused problems as seen in this thread) in a "professional" environment for a while and haven't noticed many issues, except for beta 2 & 3 not showing the NTFS partitions on the desktop. I will be posting more findings later on with the final version. I have Leopard installed

 

[papypaprika]

Dear Anatoly,

I have the bad issue of the beta 3 using your final release trial available on your main website (pntfsmac_tr.dmg).

When I uninstall it, my ntfs volume does not appear anymore in the finder.

Tried to mount it with Disk Utility.app, doesn't work.
Tried to mount through terminal. Error : Incorrect superblock.

I reinstalled it. All Ok.
I uninstalled it again. Doesn't appear anymore.

Please Help ! I need to have access to my ntfs disk. How can I get it back ?

How can I reenable the standard native ntfs driver ?

Thanks.

Macbook, Mac Os X 10.4.10 on a external usb disk.

 

[rainforest1155]

When I uninstall it, my ntfs volume does not appear anymore in the finder.

I had the same issue with Beta3 and kept it installed. After installing Leopard (10.5), I haven't tried it anymore. Once I have received my license, I'll give it another try and let you know what the current status is for me.

Sebastian

 

[LGFelix]

Lost NTFS Volume on upgrade to OS X 10.4.11

Beta 4 installed on OS X 10.4.10. No problems, able to write to NTFS volume. Repaired permissions, ejected all USB/Firewire external drives, and applied OS x 10.4.11 patch. Came up fine, repaired permissions, then connected external drives. NTFS volume (on USB 2.0) would not show up on desktop. Disk utility showed it there, but not on desktop. Uninstalled Beta 4. Restarted and USB NTFS volume showed up. I haven't reinstalled Beta 4. Think I'll wait for Anatoly to give us the discounts on the new commercial version. Thought it worth mentioning. Maybe this is a glitch that is fixed in the released version.

 

[Neil321]

confused

Hi all/anatoly

I have a macbook pro 2.16 GHZ 2GB ram and 120GB internal HD and a 400GB external HD both firewire and usb

Im just about to install leopard and want to set up boot camp so i can run xp
i want to give the xp partition say 40GB and formatt it NTFS as i think im right in saying this can be done when you load up xp

I then want to install this paragon software so i can do what it says on the tin but this is were the confusion sets indo i download it before or after setting up boot camp and if after in what platform and once downloaded to i need to uninstall it and if i downloaded paragon today 18th nov what version would i get beta or full version

I then want to partition my external drive in two half for osx and half for xp both NTFS paragon also does a partition manager does anyone know what platform this needs to be downloaded in and if this is easy to use as im basically new to macs and not done anything like this before

oh and once partitioned can i store all my prog files from xp on the external drive ie messenger flash player antivirus etc and can you still update from there

many thanks

neil

 

[rainforest1155]

Hi Neil,

Welcome to the forums! If you download the NTFS driver, you'll get the finalized version. Just go to the Paragon homepage and look for it in the download section.

40 GB for Bootcamp should work as far as I know. The standard that Bootcamp offers are 32GB for Windows, but I was able to adjust it down to 10GB. Make sure that you use a XP SP2 CD. XP with only SP1 could damage the contents of your whole hard drive. Trust me.

Once you've your Windows setup properly, you should be able to use either OSX or XP to do the basic partition of your external hard drive. Within XP, you're able to setup NTFS partitions. Within OSX, Disk Utility takes care of formating the Mac partition. So basically, you leave the part unparitioned that you would like to use for the other system.

Another thing: don't try to create more than 2 partitions on your internal drive. Mac OSX doesn't like that and if you don't know what you're doing, you're most likely headed for trouble. Note, it's perfectly normal that Mac OSX creates an additional temp or swap partition.

In Bootcamp, it should pose no problem to install applications on the external hard drive. Just make sure that it's not anything basic without which gets started upon booting into Windows as you would have to keep the external drive connected and turned on at all times.

I hope this helps,
Sebastian

 

[Neil321]

Hi Neil,

Welcome to the forums! If you download the NTFS driver, you'll get the finalized version. Just go to the Paragon homepage and look for it in the download section.

40 GB for Bootcamp should work as far as I know. The standard that Bootcamp offers are 32GB for Windows, but I was able to adjust it down to 10GB. Make sure that you use a XP SP2 CD. XP with only SP1 could damage the contents of your whole hard drive. Trust me.

Once you've your Windows setup properly, you should be able to use either OSX or XP to do the basic partition of your external hard drive. Within XP, you're able to setup NTFS partitions. Within OSX, Disk Utility takes care of formating the Mac partition. So basically, you leave the part unparitioned that you would like to use for the other system.

Another thing: don't try to create more than 2 partitions on your internal drive. Mac OSX doesn't like that and if you don't know what you're doing, you're most likely headed for trouble. Note, it's perfectly normal that Mac OSX creates an additional temp or swap partition.

In Bootcamp, it should pose no problem to install applications on the external hard drive. Just make sure that it's not anything basic without which gets started upon booting into Windows as you would have to keep the external drive connected and turned on at all times.

I hope this helps,
Sebastian

many thanks will give it go

 

[CLuv]

Anatoly,

Thank you for the software. I'm happy to report that after installing on a Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz MacBook with 2GB of RAM and running 10.5.1, the startup is just as fast as if it wasn't installed. Great job!
The Windows partition shows up in the Startup Disk area of System Preferences, shows up on the Desktop, and no issues within Finder. I'll be looking into it's ability to write to the Windows partition later today. I have to say so far so good, and I highly recommend this great piece of software.

CLuv

 

[SDAVE]

I installed the final as well, and all is well.

I am using Leopard 10.5.1 (latest) with the Paragon NTFS driver. NTFS drives mount without problems.

 

[federicog]

The serial number I received isn't working :'(

 

[LGFelix]

Yet Another Success

After receiving information on how/where to download, I purchased discounted software and downloaded the final version. Waited for email with serial No., then installed on my 24 in. 2.8 GHz iMac with OS X 10.4.11. No problems after restart. So far, all is well.

Thanks, Paragon

 

[richard.mac]

Very good. 4 stars!

Hey Paragon

im pleased to say that i just installed NTFS for Mac OS X 6.0 in Leopard. i was a bit hesitant about installing the betas as i had a bad experience with Mac FUSE + NTFS-3g.

The installation was breeze and im very pleased that the driver is so very small in size! the driver is absolutely flawless so far. My vista boot camp partition appears as a normal disk will full read/write capabilities. i tested it with a number of very large video files and also very small text files and it worked without any errors.

Disk utility also shows the disk format as Windows NT filesystem just like the default read only Mac OS X NTFS drivers unlike NTFS-3g which showed up as NTFS-3g filesystem or something along those lines. little things like these really appeal to me. well done!

the combination of MacDrive on windows and Paragon NTFS on Mac OS X certainly takes boot camp to a whole new level in terms of usability.

the only reason i have given 4 stars is i because i have only just started using the drivers. if i use it after a while with no errors or hiccups then 5 starts for sure!

if i could have one request though. could you maybe try to not install a folder into applications but a single app? place the manual in a Paragon folder in the user Documentation folder and the register and uninstall application could somehow be integrated into a app.

 

[Anatoly]

Dear papypaprika,

Do you mean that your NTFS volume disappears after our (Paragon) driver is uninstalled?

Dear LGFelix,

Is your external driver (USB 2.0) not showed on your desktop under your 10.4.10 with applied OS x 10.4.11 patch when our driver is installed?

Hello federicog,

I have re-registered the product on your account. You will receive a new serial number soon.

Dear Forum Visitors,

We would like to localize the product – support multiple languages. Could you please help us in this matter? Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Korean, Portuguese,... Would be great. What should be translated: the Manual, Site and a few strings from the install/uninstall application. The reward will be discussed on an individual basis.

Thank you all,
Anatoly.

 

[papypaprika]

NTFS Drive does not appear

Dear Anatoly,

Excactly what you said. My USB Drive, which has one NTFS and two HFS+ partitions, MBR (not guid nor apple), does not appear anymore after uninstalling. Impossible to mount it through the terminal.

BTW, I am french, and I would be glad to partitipate to the translation into french, if you planed to do one...