MacFUSE and NTFS on OSX

Well nothing written in a while, been busy with RL and future plans. :)

However I felt compelled to (at least) link to these great news. The wonderful peeps at Google have made an OSX port of the Linux originating FUSE (File-system in USErspace) mechanism. For those of you who just went "Huh? Wha? Whocaresdude!" FUSE makes (along with many other) it possible to have Read/Write access to NTFS volumes on a Mac.

Those who still shrug, NTFS (Windows NT File System) has become the industry standard file-system structure for Windows based systems ever since admins realized how crappy FAT really is... So what this has meant for us casual computer users is that all NTFS formatted disks (most Windows formatted disks) have largely been unavailable in OSX. Albeit a rather "flaky" read-access to NTFS, OSX has lacked a propper implementation of a NTFS bridge.

But now, thanks to a lot of hard-working people, we can enjoy unlimited access to all our drives. This has been a head-ache for myself since all my USB disks are NTFS formatted. So now I can finally use a single USB drive to store all my photos and videos, and plug it into both Macs and Windows machines at will. :D

See links below for more info on installing MacFUSE and NTFS-3G:
Article on MacOSXHints
MacFUSE project page and a tip on how to solve the "macfuse_required" error
NTFS-3g Project page and alternative download