MacFUSE is a library that provides a Mac equivalent to the FUSE library found on Linux. MacFUSE doesn't have any NTFS support, you are referring of NTFS-3G. With regards Mac OS X behaviour, I have also seen that the UI will update to mark that the disk is ejected however the disk is still actually being written to. Try running a "sync" from a terminal after your write, give it a few minutes and then eject the drive and see if this makes a difference.
Sam Moffatt http://pasamio.id.au On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Jake <[email protected]> wrote: > > Let me start out by saying I support MacFUSE in their efforts of > bringing NTFS to the MacOSX, and am grateful to have their software to > help me write NTFS onto my SeaGate 500GB Portable NTFS. > Now, with that said and done, I would like to issue a warning to all > users of the software. > I have used MacFUSE for a great three months now on my personal iMac > at school, and installed it on all of the other iMacs in our facility. > There is no extra data or applications on our iMacs; the only software > other than software updates directly from Apple, and MacFUSE are the > only things we have downloaded from the internet. Now, all the iMacs > have gone through the correct install and reboot process, and for > about a month we had not seen any problems. > I am an artist. I work a lot in Photoshop. > About two weeks ago, I was doing some transfers to display my > portfolio, saving a large .PSD (around 400MB-500MB) to my external > drive, and upon finishing the save, I correctly ejected the drive (CMD > +Click>Eject). After ejecting the drive successfully, I plugged in the > USB to my native Windows laptop, running Windows Vista Ultimate x64/ > x86. Its important to note here that I have used Mac and Windows with > no difficulty for two months, and it is not the Windows fault. Once > the 'Autoplay' menu arose, obviously showing that it recognized the > drive, I clicked on "View Files/Folders." To my surprise, two folders > that I hadn't touched or saved anything to on the Mac were missing. > Both folders, unfortunately, contained all the work I had done from my > Summer and Spring Breaks, 3 months of works, and over 20GB of pictures > and files. And yes, the folders were in fact on the Mac's display when > I was saving the PSDs. On Windows, I looked for them as if they were > hidden, and yes, I also searched for hidden files on the iMac. > Unfortunately, they had dropped off the face of my eHDD. I was > devastated. Luckily, I didn't temper with the drive any longer, and I > was able to have someone take an entire week for me and RESTORE (this > required professional software) 80-90% of the lost pictures and files. > Nonetheless, I still lost about 2GB of data, files most of which were > very important. > I have read: "The driver currently is in BETA status, which means that > no data corruption or loss has been reported during ordinary driver > use, nor found in our extensive quality testing before release of the > latest version, however we are aware of certain usability issues and > driver limitations which are all documented and planned to be resolved > in the future. It may be revealing about the high reliability of the > NTFS-3G driver that an increasing number of users find hidden hardware > faults, and several Microsoft released NTFS bugs during NTFS-3G > testing and usage." > But this needs to be stated, as it has happened to me. Random files > and directories can be lost using MacFUSE, even carefully, and even if > they weren't even touched on the device before eject. > > I warn that, upon using MacFUSE, that you may loose important data if > you: > A. Use MacFUSE to make your drive a live file-system > B. Update files by overwriting them on your drive using MacFUSE. > C. Use both Windows and Mac with MacFUSE. > D. Use MacFUSE with any NTFS drive. (which means doing any of the > three above and all other approaches using MacFUSE) > > Although it is a nice and free alternative to pay-for driver/app, I > recommend that upon choosing an external hard drive to buy a FAT32 or > Mac-Based drive beforehand; otherwise, you can end up loosing a lot of > data using a beta freeware. I didn't think it would happen to me. But, > like many terminal diseases such as AIDs and Brain Cancer, you never > do. I'm not asking for the issue to be attended to, I have recovered > as much as I can. But I'm backing up my drive onto another drive and > reformatting it to FAT32 so I can use it now, because I'm certainly > not looking forward to loosing any more important files. > You may want to look into this, MacFUSE devs--random data deletion-- > maybe try to fix it. When you get a stable version up, or maybe Apple > finally buys into NTFS support, I'll delete the partition and go back > to NTFS. For now, farewell MacFUSE. > -Jake B. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
