Description

This script automate the instructions in the oficial website to remount the partition in read and write mode

Install ntfs-3g

brew tap gromgit/homebrew-fuse
brew install ntfs-3g-mac

Enable security extensions

This is a good tutorial about this procedure: https://iboysoft.com/howto/enable-system-extension-m1-mac.html

Install this utility

We recommend to install pipx first and run this command

pipx install git+https://github.com/rodfersou/osx-ntfs-rw.git

You may need to restart your shell

Allow admin to run sudo without password

echo "%admin ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" > admin && sudo chown 0 admin && sudo mv admin /etc/sudoers.d

Plug the device and trigger the utility

sudo ntfs-rw