FIXED: ntfs-3g "Did not receive a signal within 15"

I was having an issue with mac ntfs-3g after I had upgraded to Lion. I googled around and found a solution. I wrote up a short shell script to do all the grunt work (and prevent typos)

Here is the source that I found: HERE
They indicated that they got the code from: HERE

Attached is the script. Simply download, open a terminal, and run:


The full text of the error I was getting:

I am absolutely new to OSX. I did what the guide says, but after I enter my password in terminal, I get sudo: ./ntfs3g-fix.txt: command not found

you need to make the txt file executable
chmod +x ntfs3g-fix.txt

It works! Thank you!

This didn't work for me on OS X 10.9.4. What did work though is I re-installed FUSE for OS X and NTFS-3G, then installed the fuse_wait patch. You can find information about this on the following page under known issues: https://github.com/osxfuse/osxfuse/wiki/NTFS-3G

Here's a direct link for people who just want the patch: https://github.com/bfleischer/fuse_wait/downloads

This works great! Additionally, what needed to be done on my system is to:
> chmod 755 /System/Library/Filesystems/ntfs-3g.fs/ntfs-3g.util

That's all!

Thanks a million

Hi, I just wanted to let everyone know that this worked for me after making the text file executable and running ntfs-3g from Terminal.

I was initially getting the 15 seconds error using the GUI in Disk Utility to try and mount an NTFS partition, and after applying the fix Disk Utility still wouldn't mount the partition correctly as read/write, but I'm very happy that it at least works from the command line!

Thanks for your help, Vitus13!

Edit: I realise that I'm bumping a very old thread, but this was the first Google result when trying to solve my issue, and it was successful in helping me.