Enable NTFS WRITE & READ in MacOS in 5 minutes

Enable writing to NTFS hard drives for free in Mac OS X.

What we need:

Get and Install Homebrew from Homebrew Website

Get it done:

1. Install osxfuse and ntfs-3g

$ brew cask install osxfuse

$ brew install ntfs-3g

2. Restart your macbook in recovery mode

Restart your macbook and press COMMAND + R to get into the recovery mode.

Open the terminal while in recovery mode and type

$ csrutil disable

4. Restart Macbook

After disabling csrutil, reboot your macbook normally. When done open terminal and enter the following commands:

$ sudo mv /sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs.original 

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/sbin/mount_ntfs /sbin/mount_ntfs

5. Restart your macbook in recovery mode

Restart your macbook and press COMMAND + R to get into the recovery mode.

Open the terminal while in recovery mode and type

$ csrutil enable

6. Done

Restart your macbook normally. You should be able to write and read NTFS diks.

Tested with: OSX El Capitan - Version 10.11.4