Mounty.app Website Review

a tiny tool to re-mount write-protected ntfs volumes under mac os x 10.9+ in read-write mode. you will be notified if there is any volume connected to the computer which is ntfs formatted and ready to re-mount in read-write mode. no additional driver will be installed. it simply makes use of the build-in mechanisms already provided by mac osx mavericks - no strings to support further development of mounty, we encourage you to make a donation via paypal: from the icon in menu bar you can always bring a finder window to front to manage the contents of the mounted drive. occasionally i need to share files with my colleagues via usb sticks. since we are working on different platforms the sticks might be ntfs-formatted. no problem so far, there are several resources out to the web describing to accomplish this task, e.g. i personally have chosen the more pragmatic way, just open a terminal and issue some mount commands like: however, tired of typing this over and over, i have written mounty to accomplish exactly this - but in a much more convenient fashion. so, under the hood, it happens an unmount and a remount short after, followed by opening a finder window pointing to the hidden mount please let me know if this tool is also useful to you; and do not hesitate to ask a question that might appear using mounty.. my usb stick will not re-mount. an alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this doesn't help. this can happen when the usb stick is not cleanly unmounted from the windows pc. if you simply unplug the usb stick from pc without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware correctly, the volume will be marked as not cleanly unmounted. there might be some di*ty sectors left and mac os x will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason. this is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing. the ntfs partition might be marked as di*ty and the apple ntfs driver cannot recover from that situation. mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to