Before I upgraded my Mac Pro to OS X 10.5 (Leopard), I was surprised (shouldn’t have been) that I could not alter the contents of my NTFS-formated USB hard drive. I found MacFUSE and NTFS-3G for Mac OS, available free online, which brought my NTFS drive to full read-write functionality. The upgrade to Leopard returned the USB drive to its read-only state. I installed the Leopard-compatible MacFUSE and NTFS-3G and, “Yayah baybee!”

It’s great having a big external drive that my Mac and my Win PCs can both read and write. I guess some of us are easy to please.