Last but not least, there are third party paid drivers that allow Mac users to read, write and access NTFS formatted USB drives without reformatting the drive with exFAT or using of experimental features. This solution could potentially cause problems with your NTFS file system, so use it with caution.
Using a paid third party app is the easiest and fastest way to enable NTFS write support on Mac without formatting NTFS drives to a compatible file system. If you want to take the risk and try them out, read the following tutorial Write NTFS on Mac with commercial but easy-to-use NTFS driver. However, it’s off by default and requires some messing around in the terminal to enable it. The macOS includes experimental support for writing to NTFS drives.
However you will lose all the data, and in case you forget to backup first, it will be gone forever. Due to compatibility issues, NTFS is Read Only on Mac (but Read & Write with Windows). The macOS Mojave supports exFAT file format and since Windows does too, converting an NTFS drive to exFAT may solve the problem of accessing the files it contains on both platforms. If you’re going to be transferring files between Mac’s and PC’s use exFAT. Write NTFS on Mac with commercial but easy-to-use NTFS driver. There are several ways to work around this problem.
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