Okay its march 21st 2018. Just got off support call with senior apple tech. Very nice fella. Garth i think was his name. Kiwi guy in auckland.

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We were talking for about an hour. Unfortunately we got disrupted buy a power cut. As i was on cellphone the call survived.

But i was able to keep him on long enough to get to this; Apparently highsierra (hs) comes with a new file system. He speculated- paragon 15 is not compatible.

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Its designed for the previous file system. Solution- restart holding command r. Format disk using the disk utility. Restart normally. Open paragon. Format as ntfs. (I am doing this as i write this) ( my aim is to be able to put movies on thumb drive and connect to my tv/router for watching) Okay.

That did not work. It is still read only. So i try to use disk utility. I can now select windows ntfs. Nope, its still read only. So outside chance that maybe if I uninstall paragon and use something different.

I Noticed that after installing Paragon NTFS 15 for mac on my High Sierra Macbook Pro. The Bootcamp drive is no longer available in the OSX Start-up Preferences pane. Initially that seemed OK, because you can set the default boot drive in the Paragon NTFS 15 program.

Its real hard to get rid of paragon. So i do my best and give up on the 100% uninstall. Then i look elsewhere. I find tuxera. Installed it- small thing, at the end it had an error with security & privacy settings. I ignored this and allowed it. Normal restart.

I start tuxera. I dont configure anything. I go straight to format and start it on ntfs. I wondered if it was actually working or not because i didnt get any progress bar. So i left it for about ten minutes. Came back and boom! Drive formatted as ntfs.

And i have custom access. Read and write. I put a file on the drive. Went to router works fine. Conclusion: paragon is shit and probably spyware. Apple tech was nice.

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