Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2012 Released, Localized Into 13 Languages
Comes With Extensive NTFS Repair Fully Integrated With Mac OS X
HELSINKI, FINLAND-- April 30, 2012 -- Tuxera Inc., the leading provider of interoperable file systems for Android, Linux, Mac and other platforms, today announced the release of Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2012. The installer and user interface have been localized to support twelve new languages including Arabic, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish. Among many new features Tuxera NTFS for Mac now includes Tuxera's extensively developed NTFS verify and repair functionality fully integrated with Disk Utility. The release has been successfully tested and verified to work with Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Mac OS X Lion.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac allows Mac OS X users read and write to external hard drives, USB memory sticks and other portable storages formatted with Microsoft Windows. Tuxera's software is a key tool for users who migrate from Windows to Mac and need to retrieve important data from Windows backup storages. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is also a very popular tool for designers and digital imaging professionals who work with large files across PCs and Macs. FAT is not a suitable option for portable file system storage because it limits file sizes to 4GB, and cloud storages have well known performance, security and availability concerns. Tuxera NTFS for Mac has been designed to support the users need for interoperability across their devices.
"Tuxera is committed to provide all Mac users worldwide an easy-to-use, lightning fast tool to access their Windows formatted hard drives and other storages. Tuxera NTFS for Mac installer and preference panel is now translated and localized into 13 languages," said Oscar Santolalla, Product Manager at Tuxera. "Mac keeps on growing in popularity and we are answering to the demand. Tuxera will verify and confirm Tuxera NTFS for Mac fully supports the next major OS X version Mountain Lion as soon as it is released."
For more information, please contact:
Tuxera Inc.
Viet-Anh Le
Viet-anh@tuxera.com
Marketing Manager
+358-40-088-5099
About Tuxera
Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Android, Linux, Mac OS X and other platforms have hundreds of millions installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit http://www.tuxera.com/.
Tuxera Recovery is released!
Tuxera wishes you a happy new year!
We start 2012 with a new release: Tuxera Recovery. After our Beta period, we are very proud to announce the first commercial version of Tuxera Recovery. Thank you for all your valuable feedback. Now we launch an improved and very stable product that will allow you to recover any unintentionally deleted file. Tuxera Recovery supports all Windows versions starting from XP.
The product costs only 25 euros and can be purchased in Tuxera's webshop:
http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-recovery/
You can always download and try the product before purchasing. If you have feedback on Tuxera Recovery, suggestions on what kind of new features you would want to have, please write us to: recovery AT tuxera DOT com.
Release: Tuxera Recovery Beta
We are now announcing the release of Tuxera Recovery (Beta). Tuxera has launched its first Windows application, Tuxera Recovery. This utility will help you to recover unintentionally deleted files from your hard drive, camera, mobile phone, USB stick or any other storage.
For more information, please visit: http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-recovery/ We are happy to receive your feedback, just write us to: recovery@tuxera.com
Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2011.4 Now Available
Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2011.4 Now Available
Improves Responsiveness for 64-bit Kernels and Supports Mac OS X Lion
HELSINKI, FINLAND – May 3, 2011 – Tuxera Inc., the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Android, Mac and other platforms, today announced the availability of a new release of its widely adopted Tuxera NTFS for Mac. Among the numerous added enhancements, the new version includes automatic translation of filenames and important improvements in performance on 64-bit kernels. Tuxera NTFS for Mac also ensures full support to the next Mac OS X version 10.7 Lion expected to be released later in 2011.
New components of Mac OS X recently started to encode file attributes in a way that Windows Explorer was not able to access. Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2011.4 brings in automatic translation of filenames, removing any problem when copying files to NTFS volumes. Additionally, this release ensures improved responsiveness when using multiple simultaneous NTFS volumes on 64-bit Mac OS X kernels.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac allows Apple Mac OS X users to read and write in Windows NTFS format fuss-free. Transferring files from Windows to Mac and vice versa is made easy with the help of Tuxera software as the common Windows-formatted hard drives and memory sticks can be used. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is also very popular in companies and universities with heterogeneous computing environments that include both Windows and Mac computers.
¨We are pleased to announce the awaited new Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2011.4 release that makes Mac-Windows interoperability easier and more productive” says Oscar Santolalla, Product Manager at Tuxera. ¨Tuxera is fully committed to provide Mac users with the best file system interoperability experience. We would like to thank you for widely adopting our solution and for granting us your trust.¨
This release coincides with the new Tuxera NTFS YouTube Channel, which has been conceived to bring you great resources about Tuxera NTFS for Mac.
For more information, please contact:
Viet-Anh Le
Marketing Manager, Tuxera Inc.
+358 40 008 5099
About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Android, Mac OS X and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com
Release: Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2011.4
We are now announcing the release of Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2011.4.
The new release contains numerous enhancements. Here are some of the highlights:
- Automatic translation of filenames that would be invalid in Windows into a compatible form, leading to less problems when copying files to NTFS volumes (can be turned off in preferences).
- Improved responsiveness when using multiple simultaneous NTFS volumes on 64-bit kernels.
- The ability to turn off native storage of extended attributes, introduced in version 2010.7 (to improve compatibility with NTFS-3G and older versions of Mac OS X's internal NTFS driver).
- Bugfix for formatting hard disks with 4 KiB sector size. The previous version produced NTFS volumes that could not be used successfully in Windows.
- Bugfixes/tuning of native extended attribute handling. Some applications (e.g. Adobe Photoshop) could misbehave with the previous stable version.
- Bugfix for saving files from Adobe Premiere Pro.
- Bugfix for free disk space handling. The amount of free disk space being displayed in Finder was not kept up-to-date in some situations.
Updates are free for all existing customers, so we urge everyone to update to the latest version.
Release Candidate: Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.12-RC
The latest release candidate of Tuxera NTFS for Mac is out.
The newest release candidate contains bugfixes and a some new features.
Highlights:
- Automatic filename translation of characters that Windows Explorer considers illegal. File names and attribute names can now safely contain characters such as ':' and '\' as they are translated to the private Unicode range according to the scheme used in Services for Mac. (This proved to be an immediate problem as some Mac OS X component has started to set attributes like "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms" which resulted in the files being inaccessible in Windows Explorer.)
- Improved performance with multiple filesystems under the 64-bit Snow Leopard kernel.
- Bugfix: Free space updates was not picked up by Finder at all times (Snow Leopard).
- More efficient aligned I/O, now built into the caching layer. This should improve performance in some situations.
- Bugfix for resource fork handling. This bug resulted in problems with some applications, e.g. Adobe Photoshop CS5.
Please send an email to our dedicated support email address describing any issues that you might have. Thank you.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac Released with 64-bit Support
Tuxera NTFS for Mac Released with 64-bit Support
Revamped Software Interconnects Every Mac With Windows-Formatted Drives
HELSINKI, FINLAND - October 11, 2010 - Tuxera Inc., the leading provider of Windows-compatible file systems for Linux, Android, Mac and other platforms, today announced the release of a major new version of its popular Tuxera NTFS for Mac loaded with full 64-bit support, extended attributes, and other improvements. Apple's latest Mac Pro computers, released in mid-August, are the first to have Snow Leopard operating system installed in 64-bit kernel mode. Tuxera follows Apple's direction with the revamped NTFS file system application that is guaranteed to work with future Macs.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac allows Apple Macintosh users to read and write in Windows-format, safely and quickly. The software has become extremely popular among consumers who migrate from Windows to Mac, and wish to fully use their Windows-formatted hard drives and memory sticks with the new system. Designers running Mac use the software to prepare customer deliveries. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is also widely used in media production companies and universities with heterogeneous computing environments that include both Windows and Mac computers. The software is compatible with popular virtualization and encryption solutions including Parallels Desktop®, VMware Fusion® and TrueCrypt.
“This is a major upgrade for Tuxera NTFS for Mac. We have worked hard to rebuild 'under the hood' functionality to be fully compatible with 64-bit and are pleased with the performance throughput,” stated Mikko Välimäki, Tuxera CEO. "There are also several other improvements ranging from a simpler installation process to new features only available from Tuxera such as full support for extended attributes. We remain fully committed to providing Mac users the best-of-class file system compatibility to the Windows world."
Apple has introduced 64-bit kernel mode in Snow Leopard. 64-bit support speeds up the operating system and removes barriers for maximum physical memory. Tuxera NTFS for Mac now joins other system applications that can take full advantage of the future of high-performance computing.
The new Tuxera NTFS for Mac version 2010.10 can be downloaded from http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/. An update is free-of-charge to previously registered customers.
For more information, please contact:
Mikko Välimäki
CEO, Tuxera Inc.
+358 (0)50 598 0498
Apple: 64-bit.
About Tuxera. Tuxera is the leading provider of file systems that allow music, pictures, videos and other content to be ported across devices. With Tuxera file systems inside, users experience plug and play interoperability with their laptops, digital cameras, set-top-boxes, mobile phones and other consumer electronics. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS and exFAT solutions for Linux, Android, Mac OS X and other platforms have over 30 million installations. Close collaboration with Microsoft ensures reliable compatibility and helps Tuxera to set the standard in high-performance, low power use for embedded and mobile solutions. Tuxera’s customers include leading hardware, software, and consumer electronics companies. For more information, please visit www.tuxera.com.
Release candidate: Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.9-RC
The latest release candidate of Tuxera NTFS for Mac is now out.
The new release candidate integrates the shared component MacFUSE closer into the driver to simplify installation and adds support for Mac users running the fully 64-bit Snow Leopard kernel (the 'X86_64' kernel flavor). This means that the newest Mac Pros (mid-2010) will be able to use Tuxera NTFS for Mac without switching to the 32/64-bit hybrid kernel which is the default on all other consumer Macs.
Along with these changes there have been numerous other improvements, for instance:
- Driver now runs in 64-bit mode on Intel 64-bit and PowerPC G5 processors (only Mac OS X 10.5 and later).
- Bugfix for extended attribute handling which caused file copying problems in some cases.
- Disabled the 'archive' flag for directories because of conflict with Finder.
- Fixed incompatibility with TrueCrypt volumes.
- Driver codebase synchronized with NTFS-3G 2010.8.8 (see: NTFS-3G release history for a list of changes).
Feedback from users running the 64-bit kernel is most appreciated. Please post your experiences in the forum, or send an email to our dedicated support email address if you're a customer. Thank you.
Release: Tuxera NTFS for Mac 2010.1
The latest release of Tuxera NTFS for Mac is now out!
Note: This release contains an important bugfix for the issue described in KB974729. All users are urged to update as soon as possible.
Changes since 2009.10:
- A fix for the issue described in KB974729, in which NTFS drives were rendered unmountable in Windows Vista and Windows 7 in rare cases after being used extensively with Tuxera NTFS for Mac or NTFS-3G. After this update, Tuxera NTFS for Mac will no longer trigger this condition.
To fix existing drives, please install the hotfix provided by Microsoft and follow instructions.
If you have been affected by this issue and need assistance, don't hesitate to contact our premium support email address (see your activation email). - Performance improvements: Tuxera NTFS for Mac now includes many of the improvements featured in Tuxera NTFS for Embedded systems, designed to further increase performance and reduce unnecessary driver workload, especially when working with many smaller files and traversing large directory hierarchies.
For example, when crawling a test volume recursively, 2010.1 was nearly 40% faster than 2009.10 in our tests. - Performance improvements: The caching layer has been improved with more efficient lookup, which means less CPU overhead, and measures have been taken to minimize the amount of excess data that is read when accessing files in a random fashion.
- Feature: Tuxera NTFS for Mac now includes a new preference pane option "Disable recovery dialog for hibernated volumes", which makes the driver ignore NTFS volumes that contain a hibernated Windows session instead of showing a dialog asking the user whether it wants to purge the hibernated state or abort mounting.
- Bugfix: Fix for some users of Snow Leopard who had problems with formatting NTFS volumes (Tuxera NTFS was not displayed as a formatting option at all times).
- Fix: General usability improvements in the installer and preference pane.
- Fix: Minor fixes to improve compatibility with the built-in NTFS driver.
- Experimental: Tuxera NTFS for Mac now attempts to mount Windows LDM partitions by default. This will not work at all times, but one user did benefit from this change.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac Released
Press Release
October 28, 2009
The Fastest Way to Read and Write Windows Disks from Mac is Here
Tuxera NTFS for Mac Released for Immediate Download
HELSINKI, FINLAND: Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box. The fix is here. Tuxera is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tuxera NTFS for Mac, the fastest way to read and write Windows formatted disks from a Mac. The software has been successfully tested to work with Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Tuxera NTFS for Mac is the result of years of intense development in the leading open source NTFS project including hundred of thousands of happy Mac users. Tuxera CTO Szabolcs Szakacsits explains: "Tuxera NTFS for Mac is a major upgrade from our previous open source NTFS-3G for Mac. Performance has been significantly improved along with other enhancements. Copying a DVD to an NTFS hard drive takes now just 45 seconds. With open source it took as much as 12 minutes. We are pretty sure this is the fastest read/write NTFS solution you can have for Mac."
Tuxera CEO Mikko Välimäki adds: "Launching the commercially supported high-perfomance Tuxera NTFS for Mac is an important step for us. We are encouraged by the very positive initial feedback from the vibrant OS X community. Be sure we are not stopping here. Tuxera will make sure its products continue to improve and exceed the highest expectations."
Tuxera NTFS for Mac can be downloaded from http://www.tuxera.com/products/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac/. After installation, Tuxera NTFS becomes visible in your System Preferences. The trial version runs for 15 days after which it must be registered. A license for one user costs 25 euros with volume discount available for enterprise customers. Licenses can be bought with major credit cards from Tuxera's Online Shop: http://www.tuxera.com/buy/online-shop/
For further information:
Mikko Välimäki, CEO
Tel. +358-50-598-0498
email: mikko at tuxera dot com
Szabolcs Szakacsits, CTO
Tel. +358-40-823-3360
email: szaka at tuxera dot com
About Tuxera. Tuxera offers NTFS and exFAT file system drivers that guarantee plug and play Windows interoperability. Building on the success of open source, Tuxera’s industry-standard NTFS driver has over 10 million installations. Tuxera was the first to implement reliable NTFS read/write support on Linux, Mac OS X, and other systems. Tuxera is also the first to offer exFAT for any system based on extensive collaboration with Microsoft including intellectual property and alliance agreements. Tuxera’s customers include leading software, semiconductor, and consumer electronics companies. Together we design the future of file system interoperability. See more from http://www.tuxera.com/