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Re: NTFS disks on a Mac

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On 16 Jun 2026 at 17:58:23 BST, "Another John" <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

> On 16 Jun 2026 at 08:02:18 BST, "Old John" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> But I have never had need to write to the disk from my iMac. Why do you? Daft
>> question, perhaps, but the answer may open up a whole new world of adventure
>> for me.
> 
> My son (now back in Canada) brought us some TV programmes to watch (among them
> Severance, and Poker Face if you're interested).
> 
> He had them on an NTFS disk - he could therefore copy them (140GB) to my iMac,
> as a place to hold them -- because Sequoia can read NTFS, although not write
> to it.
> 
> I then needed to write those files to a disk that I can plug into our Sony TV
> (vintage 2018). The TV can read NTFS disks, or FAT disks, but NOT exFAT disks.
> (chart at https://www.sony.co.uk/electronics/support/articles/00175762 ).
> 
> Although I can write FAT on the MAC,  FAT cannot handle files larger than 4GB
> -- and quite a few of the episodes are larger than 4GB.
> 
> This saga itself is a bit like an episode of Severance...

OP here: finishing up:

Thanks to those who pointed out that "Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon"
_does_ format a disk as NTFS. (I had had difficulty spotting the crucial word
"format" on their web pages).

I downloaded it for a trial. Fired up Disk Utility, and "MNTSF" had appeared
in the options for formatting. Did that. Wrote a file to the disk, inserted it
in our telly ... and it didn't show. I concluded (perhaps wrongly) that MNTSF
does a little bit extra which rendered the disk unacceptable to the telly.

Got a friend who has a PC to format the disk as a bogstandard Windows NTSF
disk. Was able to write the videos on my Mac to that disk: I presume because
MNTSF has enabled this to my system (as stated by Paragon).

The telly can read this bogstandard NTSF disk, so we were in business, to
start watching some more "Severance".

Concluded that Severance really isn't for us: we could barely understand the
episode plots, even after reading the summaries in Wikipedia. And (worst) it's
going nowhere: Season THREE is only starting to be shot now. Obviously Apple
TV concur with the younger generation and think it's great. Me: I have better
things to do with my shrinking time upon this earth!

So: I don't need Microsoft NTFS for Mac by Paragon, and I've reached this
conclusion within the free 10-day trial time: thanks!

AJ

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NTFS disks on a Mac Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-15 13:11 +0000
  Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-06-15 15:25 +0000
    Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-06-15 15:59 +0000
      Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2026-06-15 17:14 +0000
  Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Nick Charles <none@none.none> - 2026-06-15 15:43 +0000
    Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-16 16:57 +0000
  Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2026-06-15 18:10 +0100
    Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-06-15 17:49 +0000
  Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Old John <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2026-06-16 07:02 +0000
    Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-16 16:58 +0000
      Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Old John <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2026-06-17 09:05 +0000
        Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-17 17:17 +0000
          Re: NTFS disks on a Mac RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-06-17 19:47 +0000
          Re: NTFS disks on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2026-06-18 11:11 +0100
      Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-06-22 07:33 +0000
      Re: NTFS disks on a Mac Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2026-06-23 19:01 +0000
  Re: NTFS disks on a Mac WolfFan <akwolffan@zoho.com> - 2026-06-16 08:11 -0400

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