ntfs-3g has Apple Silicon Support

[moffpage]

The official name of the app ntfs-3g

Is there a supported version available on a stable release channel? Unknown

Proposed New App Status 🔶 Unknown, more info needed

Related Issue Tracker Link or discussion None yet

An Official App Download Page http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/10/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-2010102.html?m=1

Additional context

Full Screenshot with the App and Activity Monitor(if self reporting) or Silicon Info None yet

[ThatGuySam]

Thanks for the App Request!

Is there a less sketchy download page that we can use?

This directs me to a fake Mac App Store which then sent me to a page to update Flash Player.

Also, which version of NTFS 3G is this? Is there a secondary site that explains it?

[moffpage]

Hi! Yeah, very sorry about that. I don't even know where to start damn :D How about Wikipedia?) Referring to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G "NTFS-3G was introduced by one of the senior Linux NTFS developers, Szabolcs Szakacsits, in July 2006. The developers of NTFS-3G later formed a company, Tuxera Inc., to further develop the code. NTFS-3G is now the free "community edition", while Tuxera NTFS is the proprietary version."

Linux man page for NTFS-3G: https://linux.die.net/man/8/ntfs-3g refers to Tuxera's website for support as well:

"NTFS-3G is an open-source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system with read/write support. NTFS-3G often uses the FUSE file system interface, so it can run unmodified on many different operating systems." from Wikipedia, if we go to OS X FUSE GitHub: https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/NTFS-3G

Tuxera's own website https://www.tuxera.com/company/open-source/ states:

The second image shows a button that has a download link for macOS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/ As well as https://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com:

[moffpage]

@ThatGuySam Any more info needed?

[ThatGuySam]

I see a lot of links but I can't seem to find anywhere to download binaries or installable apps.

What is there a direct download link to a file we can test for compatibility?

[moffpage]

"The second image shows a button that has a download link for macOS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/"

[ThatGuySam]

Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'm still not seeing a place to download a binary

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/

[moffpage]

http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/10/ntfs-3g-for-mac-os-x-2010102.html?m=1

Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/catacombae/files/NTFS-3G%20for%20Mac%20OS%20X/2010.10.2/ntfs-3g-2010.10.2-macosx.dmg/download

On 9 Jun 2021, at 9:46 PM, Sam Carlton @.***> wrote:

 Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I'm still not seeing a place to download a binary

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-3g/

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[ThatGuySam]

Okay, I was able to download that package.

Itt looks like the ntfs-3g binary only supports i386 and ppc architectures.

If it works on Apple Silicon it would likely be via Rosetta 2 since it has no arm64 architecture support.

For now I'm going to go ahead and list it as: 🔶 App has not yet been reported to be native to Apple Silicon

[ThatGuySam]

Actually, it looks like ntfs-3g has already been listed via Homebrew: https://doesitarm.com/formula/ntfs-3g/

[moffpage]

Damn. I’m gonna check if it’s the other binary if installed via Homebrew (probably not, anyway seems like it wasn’t supported for almost 10 years lmao).

On 9 Jun 2021, at 11:14 PM, Sam Carlton @.***> wrote:

 Actually, it looks like ntfs-3g has already been listed via Homebrew: https://doesitarm.com/formula/ntfs-3g/

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[ThatGuySam]

Yeah, I think the initial download page link was just trying to say whatever it could to get people to download malicious software.

[ThatGuySam]

Closing this issue