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NTFS-3G Mounting Failed #231

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Download the NTFS-3G package from macworld.com/2847 (after download & 
install MacFUSE 
from macworld.com/2846)
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
My MacBookPro should be able to mount, read from, and write to NTFS volumes 
(per Scott 
Knaster, technical writer at google, from an article in macworld magazine 
Aug.2007 edition)
Instead, I'm stuck in the download screen that says NTFS-3G 1-1.328 (Full).dmg
                                                                                Mounting failed.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
latest download available through website. My operating system: mac os x 10.4.10

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jessic...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2007 at 1:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
MacFUSE enables read/write NTFS in the same way as Cocoa enables applications. 
There is an NTFS 
"application" (if you will) available called NTFS-3g, which is what you 
downloaded, but its 
packaging/distribution is independent of MacFUSE itself. NTFS-3g simply uses 
MacFUSE on Mac OS X.

Looks like the Macworld article points to a much outdated version of MacFUSE 
(0.2.2, whereas the current is 
0.4.0). In its early life, MacFUSE was a fast moving project (I sometimes 
updated it on a weekly basis), so it 
looks like the article was written while MacFUSE was seeing many updates. As a 
first step, you'd want to switch 
to the most recent version of MacFUSE (available from this web site).

I can't help you with ntfs-3g issues because I don't use ntfs-3g. Either repost 
your problem (if it persists) in 
the macfuse-devel forum on this web site 
(http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse-devel), or on the 
NTFS-3g support forum (http://forum.ntfs-3g.org/viewforum.php?f=4).

Depending on which NTFS-3g package you installed, you may have ended up with an 
NTFS-3g installation 
that was "broken" in some way, and in some cases obstructed mounting of disk 
images, CD/DVD discs, etc. I 
don't know what the specific issue was, but have seen a few reports. If that 
happened, you'll have to solve 
that problem first. Try deleting the folder 
/System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs-3g.fs/ if nothing else (NOT 
ntfs.fs, which should not be deleted.)

Original comment by si...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2007 at 1:48