How can I disable Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera without uninstalling / just for a selected volume? – NTFS for Mac Help Center

Globally

You can disable Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera without uninstalling it, by just clicking the “Disable” button in the preference pane. While disabled, Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera will ignore all NTFS volumes attached to the system, and will pass the mount request on to Apple’s NTFS driver (or any other installed NTFS driver with a higher probe order).

Once you click the “Disable” button, all options will become grayed out, and the button text will change to “Enable”. Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera is enabled by default.

For a volume

If you want Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera to only ignore a specific volume when attached, select the volume in the drop-down list in the Volumes section of the preference pane, then check the box “Disable Tuxera NTFS”.

This setting is governed by the control file: .Tuxera-NTFS/disable-driver

To re-enable the volume, manually remove this control file from the volume.

Once a volume is disabled for Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera, you may have trouble re-enabling it since it’s no longer mounted as read/write. To get around this, you can connect it to a Windows machine and remove the control file from there, or force mount it with Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Tuxera from the command line.

Globally

For a volume

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