{"id":161,"date":"2008-11-29T20:04:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T01:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2008-11-29T20:04:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T01:04:39","slug":"delete-windows-files-on-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/11\/29\/delete-windows-files-on-mac-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Delete Windows Files on Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00170IFYU?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zbookclub-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00170IFYU\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-full wp-image-162\" style=\"margin: 6px; float: right;\" title=\"paragon_ntfs\" src=\"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/paragon_ntfs-1.jpg\" alt=\"paragon_ntfs\" width=\"106\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a>The solution to deleting files on a Windows drive (XP or Vista) from Mac OS X is to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00170IFYU?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zbookclub-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00170IFYU\">Paragon NTFS<\/a>.\u00a0 Upon installing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00170IFYU?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zbookclub-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00170IFYU\">Paragon NTFS<\/a> you&#8217;ll be able to copy\/delete\/modify files on drives formatted NTFS (all Windows computers since Windows 2000).\u00a0 This is especially handy for you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001F5VBRU?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=zbookclub-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B001F5VBRU\">VMWare Fusion<\/a> (like me) or Parallels folks who need to continue using PC apps on their Mac for one reason or another.<\/p>\n<p>Apple, which hasn&#8217;t licensed the use of NTFS technology from Microsoft, has only supported reading from Windows drives from OS X Tiger\/Leopard\/Snow Leopard.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/macntfs-3g.blogspot.com\/\">free NTFS program for Mac called NTFS-3G<\/a> which may do the trick for you, albeit with a little less polish (and perhaps stability) than the commercial solution above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The solution to deleting files on a Windows drive (XP or Vista) from Mac OS X is to use Paragon NTFS.\u00a0 Upon installing Paragon NTFS you&#8217;ll be able to copy\/delete\/modify files on drives formatted NTFS (all Windows computers since Windows 2000).\u00a0 This is especially handy for you VMWare Fusion (like me) or Parallels folks who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[214,215,216,217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}