On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Installing NTFS-3G will give you read/write access; I'm pretty sure > that 10.6 alos does read/write out of the box.
Nope. NTFS partitions still show up in Snow Leopard with permissions of "You can only read". I think what you may be thinking of is that in SL Bootcamp has, IIRC, been enhanced to allow read (and write?) to your Mac partition when you've booted Windows. If you think about it this is the most likely path Apple would take. They can relatively easily add support HFS+ to Windows, but AFAIK NTFS is still technically a proprietary file system. It has been reverse engineered to implement, for example, NTFS-3G but Microsoft apparently still holds on to the delusion that a "proprietary" NTFS gives them a significant competitive advantage. (Or it could just be "why bother?" laziness on the part of MS that they don't open up NTFS. Who knows?) -irrational john --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
