Thanks Sam, this actually seems to be the issue here. I think that the Mac OSX, even with drivers installed, does not treat the NTFS drive as a FAT32 drive in most areas, and because of that, the data does not instantly sync all of it, and make it possible to eject whilst the drive is still writing larger files. After all, the transfers that I am making are between 200MB and 2GB, and the maximum possible transference is 4GB. I'm sure that a sync will do the trick in most situations, but just to be safe, I have decided to back up all of my data and go to the inferior FAT32, because I have never had any problems using my flash drive even as a live file-system between Mac and Vista 64--in fact, most times when I was younger, and less experienced, I never ejected my FAT32 drive when moving from PC to Mac and vice-versa. I can't take the possible risk of loosing any data, and a 4GB flash drive doesn't do the trick when you're a free-lance designer working for a massive clientele, so unfortunately, I will be reformatting. If MacFUSE could somehow offer a sync before eject in the process as a safety, there may be no difficulty inbetween the two. I don't always want to have to shiver and ask my self if I ejected the drive or not. But alas, such a mere concept does not exist in its current firmware, so I cannot use it. Thanks for the sync information though, I have a friend who uses MacFuse and has been precautionary about transfers, he hasn't had any problems as of yet and might be gratified by the possibility of syncing before transfers. I've learned my lesson though, I'm not taking any more risks; its kind of hard to leave all of your future in the hands of freeware. At least something I can buy can offer a guarantee or a repair of the drive, and usually has professionals who restore data.
On Oct 10, 6:01 pm, Sam Moffatt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Moffatthttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
