The lingering troubles of Apple computers! How to make them compatible with USB flash drives and mobile hard drives

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Many friends who use Apple computers often encounter this trouble: when they insert a USB flash drive or mobile hard drive, they find that they can only read files but cannot copy files into it! This is because the USB flash drive or mobile hard drive uses the NTFS format, which is also the file system used by Windows, but macOS cannot have good compatibility with it.

Why do USB flash drives and mobile hard drives use the NTFS format? The main reasons are as follows.

• Although the old FAT32 has good compatibility, it cannot accommodate a single file larger than 4G;
• Influenced by Windows system, Windows is too popular, and NTFS is a very conspicuous and convenient option to format USB flash drives in Windows system;
• Compared with the exFAT format that also supports large files, NTFS has a log mechanism, which makes files more secure and less likely to be lost.

Therefore, a large number of USB flash drives and mobile hard drives use the NTFS format. By default, macOS can only read files on NTFS disks, but cannot write them. It often requires the help of third-party software to achieve reading and writing. And many of these third-party software are charged. It seems not worth spending money just to read USB flash drives and mobile hard drives. Today, I will recommend a free and open source tool to Apple users that is perfectly compatible with the NTFS format!

NTFS Tool: https://ntfstool.com/zh-cn/

NTFS Tool, as its name suggests, is an NTFS format compatible tool for macOS. It is an open source software. If you are a developer, you can click the link below to enter its GitHub page.

NTFS Tool GitHub homepage: https://github.com/ntfstool/ntfstool

NTFS Tool is very easy to use. You can run it after installation to take effect. NTFS Tool has complete NTFS file system compatibility functions, supports NTFS disk reading, writing, mounting, launching, and management functions, which can be said to make up for the shortcomings of macOS. At the same time, the interface of NTFS Tool is also very simple and easy to use. It can not only display the complete directory, but also display disk capacity, file space usage and other information, which is quite practical.

Other features of NTFS Tool include the ability to refresh disk information autonomously, support for Touch Bar shortcuts, etc. NTFS Tool is still being updated. According to the official website, in the future NTFS Tool will also support features such as permanent system tray and support for macOS' dark mode, making the product more complete.

In general, this is a very practical macOS software, which solves the compatibility problem of Apple computers with the NTFS format, which can be said to be a rigid demand. What is rare and valuable is that this is an open source and free software, which is very conscientious. Friends in need should not miss it.