I went to System Preferences, “Security & Privacy” there was a message asking me if I like to start “Paragon NTFS for Mac 15”, I clicked yes and a message asking my to restart, I clicked restart. After the restart the NTFS 15 is now in the menu bar, but when I went to its settings the NTFS partition is there but not mounted, when I click the mount icon it does nothing (no mount no message)! I rebooted holding Cmd-Opt-R keys and downloaded macOS 10.13 and formatted the OS partition to APFS and installed fresh macOS 10.13.Īt first startup I select the option to transfer everything from Time Machine backup! After finishing the the restore process, it pup up a message that it stoped “Paragon NTFS for Mac” and if I like to start it I’ve to do that from “Security & Privacy” from System Preferences!Īfter getting to the desktop of macOS 10.13, everything was restored fine including all my applications! I noticed the NTFS 15 is not in the menu bar! I reinstalled it and restarted. If you just need to recover files from a drive, 10 days is plenty of time to install this file system driver, copy your. Paragon HFS+ does cost 20, but it also offers a 10-day free trial.

15 on macOS 10.12.6 and everything went OK! Then upgraded my MacBook Pro 15-inch Late 2011 to macOS 10.13 and at the boot I got “Prohibitory sign”…! Paragon HFS+ runs in the background and automatically starts on bootup, so accessing your Mac drives will feel exactly like accessing normal Windows drives.

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