CodingKoopa
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8 months ago There is some evidence that this executable is only meant to be used with Cygwin. I looked into creating an ntfsprogs build with MinGW and there were several things that needed to be stubbed. I'm sure that MSVC would be no different.
If this is true, then the reason the maintainers do not provide a Windows build is likely that programs targeting Cygwin aren't really portable. [1] [2] [3] The best way to get it running on your system is to compile it yourself (or at least install Cygwin yourself, and then run the precompiled binary).
Nonetheless, along with my build fixes in #106, I did upload my EXEs (along with the necessary Cygwin + libntgs-3g DLLs) in this release. Note that the low-level Windows platform code doesn't appear to have been ported to GPT.
Because I cannot 'download ntfsusermap.exe'. Where in the world is that tool hidden?
And it is driving me crazy. Training and teaching people things have been my excellent qualities. Where am I when I need me? In Linux world, this has always been my problem. Burocratic, technocratic 'colleagues' that believe it is more important to guess than to know. For me. And for many other users. (And 'they' act like they know for their managers and most colleagues have no clue because: Linux)
If those who are already making money would have to pay fines for wasted time of others...
After trying everything to use ntfs-3g the way it is meant to be according to the 'man-pages', I now have no other option than to create an issue here. I 'guessed' I may need to MAKE from the source-code, but even having gone through that intense process, does not provide me with the Windows-side tool that I choose to be my way to go forward moving from source to destination (NTFS/Windows to a 'translated' and for the better part synchronized ACL+permissions on Linux).
I will now add the real solution, not the crapy hints we are given here on how to make the compilation in issue #80 and the README file. That way my time may be of time-saving value for others. Some may not give up anymore after their fruitless tries. But please tell me how to aquire the ntfsusermap.exe tool. So much valuable time lost. Crazy.
As soon as I have caught up on the wasted time, I DO intend to help out writing better Human readable instructions. Thanks you for providing the dream of sharing NTFS between Windows and Linux operating systems. It may not be the best fs use-case, but it is the only way to move forward and to achieve that best solution at a given time. https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=ntfsusermap.exe+download https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ntfsusermap.exe+download&atb=v404-1&ia=web https://superuser.com/questions/1822170/why-cant-i-find-any-information-how-to-create-ntfsusermap-exe
( Checking the 'man-pages') "Windows version
There is currently no graphical version of ntfsusermap, so to start it, you must open a cmd (or PowerShell) window. To do this, click Start, then Run, type cmd and click ok. In the window type cd followed by the directory into which ntfsusermap.exe was saved. etc, etc, etc, etc."