NTFS-3G on OS X Lion

It was necessary to mount (for recording, of course) your external hard drive (formatted in NTFS) to MacBook, on which stands OS X Lion.

Googling has led to the fact that it is possible to mount into rw native driver (disabled by default), which is part of the OS. But to use this feature is not recommended, citing its instability.
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Under the cut - the solution and pitfalls.

The NTFS-3G for Mac project , which is an implementation of the free NTFS-3G driver for OS X, comes to the rescue. The latest release is 2010.10.2 ; not the first freshness, but it works.

For the NTFS-3G driver to work in the OS, there must be support for FUSE implemented as part of the MacFuse project . However, the latest version of MacFuse (2.0.3,2) available on code.google.com does not work in Lion.
But in Lion, MacFuse 2.1.15 versions prepared by the developers of the Wuala service , as well as the MacFuse 2.2 version prepared by Tuxera , the actual author of NTFS-3G for Mac and the commercial Tuxera NTFS for Mac, work perfectly .

Summary : download the highlighted bold, install, connect the hard drive - and enjoy the successfully mounted NTFS partition mounted in the rw .