Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
At 4:22 PM -0500 2/23/2011, Dan wrote: At 12:54 PM -0800 2/23/2011, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I just pushed the back button and re-entered the serial info again and woohoo! it worked fine. Just tried that. No go. :\ And the plot thickens... Their official support reply to me is: \\ thank you for your interest in Paragon products! We will be happy if you decide to use our tools for your business. NTFS for Mac 87.0 fully functional trial is always available at our web-site http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ No need to wait for any special offers to try it :-) So, please download trial version from our web site and try to install it. You won't need to enter serial number, just install it as trial version. Will it install? Will you get the same greyed out install button? // Now, as one might expect, their site does not have version 87.0 available! So I tried the 8.0 Trial. It barfed on the codes they sent me yesterday. And when I went for the trial setting, its Continue button just does nothing. Took me three tries this morning to login to their support area and post a reply. Kept getting 404 errors. lol. ...Those of you that have this product, does version 8 work on ppc and Tiger as their page says, or ? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dan wrote: Out of the box, OS X (Tiger thru SL) can read NTFS (windows native file system). This product lets you read *and write* to NTFS volumes! And today, it's FREE! http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ How does that compare to NTFS3G http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ ? Also they're giving away their HFS+ product for Windows, too. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
At 10:48 AM -0700 2/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dan wrote: Out of the box, OS X (Tiger thru SL) can read NTFS (windows native file system). This product lets you read *and write* to NTFS volumes! And today, it's FREE! http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ How does that compare to NTFS3G http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ ? No idea, but I'm guessing that it might be far superior to this Paragon product. At this point, my zeal for Paragon has waned. Their installer is apparently broken. I got past its registration panes and am now stuck with a dimmed Install button. Also they're giving away their HFS+ product for Windows, too. Well, if this the same quality as this Mac installer... maybe FREE is about the right price?! - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
On Feb 23, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:48 AM -0700 2/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dan wrote: Out of the box, OS X (Tiger thru SL) can read NTFS (windows native file system). This product lets you read *and write* to NTFS volumes! And today, it's FREE! http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ How does that compare to NTFS3G http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-download/ ? No idea, but I'm guessing that it might be far superior to this Paragon product. At this point, my zeal for Paragon has waned. Their installer is apparently broken. I got past its registration panes and am now stuck with a dimmed Install button. Bleah. Think I'll hold off. So far I've been happy with the the open source NTFS-3G, although it's oftimes very slow to mount a volume. However that may be because as a rule, the NTFS volumes I mount are out of troubled systems and have ALWAYS been shut down dirty. I think it's taking some time to time out before asking me to force mount it. Once it does read/writes are reasonably fast; since, in general I'm just copying files off a hdd to the network via a ATA/SATA-USB adapter, I'm not entirely sure where the bottleneck is. I've had Windows force a disk check upon remounting a drive I've read or written to occasionally...again, since I'm only ever dealing with sick windows systems, I'm not sure if it's due to NTFS-3G or the underlying issues with the disk. Also they're giving away their HFS+ product for Windows, too. Well, if this the same quality as this Mac installer... maybe FREE is about the right price?! Well, I'll load it onto my Windows VM and see what it does. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: So far I've been happy with the the open source NTFS-3G, although it's oftimes very slow to mount a volume. I suspect the slowness may be on purpose? After all, they splintered off Tuxera NTFS for Mac from NTFS-3G and make the claim that if you pay for Tuxera you'll get much improved performance and speed. I used Paragon on a Snow Leopard hackintosh and was very happy with performance, it was a little quicker to mount volumes than NTFS-G3, and MUCH quicker than whatever I'm using to mount Ubuntu Ext3 or Ext4 volumes. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
Dan, thanks for the hint! I downloaded both Paragon NTFS 4 Mac and HFS+ for Win. I tried them inside a vm environment (VirtualBox) on vmWindows XP SP3 (32-bit) and on vmMac OS X 10.5 (a Hackintosh version) and both installed fine. I can now mount a HFS+ volume from inside vmWindows XP and a NTFS partition from inside vmMac OS X. I cannot say they're slow. But then, my machine is very fast. Maybe I'll later try the Paragon NTFS driver on my real Mac, but I doubt that because I don't wont to mess up my installation. I use the free (open source) NTFS-3G from Tuxera and don't see it being too slow for me. The G4 Quicksilver Dual-800 in general seems to be slow, especially when I've just worked with my PC (which is a 3.2 GHz Hexa-Core AMD). Cheers, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
At 9:15 PM +0100 2/23/2011, Mac User #330250 wrote: Dan, thanks for the hint! I downloaded both Paragon NTFS 4 Mac and HFS+ for Win. I tried them inside a vm environment (VirtualBox) on vmWindows XP SP3 (32-bit) and on vmMac OS X 10.5 (a Hackintosh version) and both installed fine. Good to know it works for someone! I'm still stuck at the dimmed Install button. And Paragon's not been tweeting for the past 9 hrs (6am my time). - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Dan wrote: I'm still stuck at the dimmed Install button I pushed the back button and then went foreword and that fixed it for some reason Jeffrey Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 macgu...@gmail.com -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:15 PM +0100 2/23/2011, Mac User #330250 wrote: Dan, thanks for the hint! I downloaded both Paragon NTFS 4 Mac and HFS+ for Win. I tried them inside a vm environment (VirtualBox) on vmWindows XP SP3 (32-bit) and on vmMac OS X 10.5 (a Hackintosh version) and both installed fine. Good to know it works for someone! I'm still stuck at the dimmed Install button. And Paragon's not been tweeting for the past 9 hrs (6am my time). One of the netmanagers here (i reposted that link there) is complaining that the serial # Paragon sent him was invalid. Methinks they weren't QUITE prepared for what just hit them. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:51 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: One of the netmanagers here (i reposted that link there) is complaining that the serial # Paragon sent him was invalid. Methinks they weren't QUITE prepared for what just hit them. I just pushed the back button and re-entered the serial info again and woohoo! it worked fine. Jeffrey Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 macgu...@gmail.com -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X -- free today!
At 1:51 PM -0700 2/23/2011, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Dan wrote: At 9:15 PM +0100 2/23/2011, Mac User #330250 wrote: I downloaded both Paragon NTFS 4 Mac and HFS+ for Win. I tried them inside a vm environment (VirtualBox) on vmWindows XP SP3 (32-bit) and on vmMac OS X 10.5 (a Hackintosh version) and both installed fine. Good to know it works for someone! I'm still stuck at the dimmed Install button. And Paragon's not been tweeting for the past 9 hrs (6am my time). One of the netmanagers here (i reposted that link there) is complaining that the serial # Paragon sent him was invalid. I quickly discovered that if you paste one of the two numbers they email you into the wrong field, it's not correctable. You have to quit the installer and relaunch. Methinks they weren't QUITE prepared for what just hit them. Yea. I'm puzzled at their choice of using Twitter to provide tech support. I can't imagine doing any quality support in 140 char public blerts. At 12:54 PM -0800 2/23/2011, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I just pushed the back button and re-entered the serial info again and woohoo! it worked fine. Just tried that. No go. :\ - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
