
Well, now after uninstalling Paragon the Mac no longer recognizes the NTFS thumb drive.

Before installing Paragon I could only read from it, but after installing Paragon I could read and write.

I then plugged in a 32gb USB thumb drive that I had formatted to NTFS yesterday to do some testing on before installing Paragon and then again after installing Paragon. I had the video running on my PC right next to the Mac so I could follow along carefully.Ībout an hour ago I uninstalled Paragon and then went back and set all the MacOS security back to the way it was. I had to watch, backup, watch, backup, watch some sections multiple times because there are some steps that they barely show for 1 second or even less than 1 second and you almost miss those steps and then are confused and lost. You have to carefully watch the video to see what they require. I just have the 10 day trial now, but I am going to uninstall it and hope I can undo all the crap I had to do to install it. Earlier I had the 2tb SSD connected, but without Paragon and then Lightroom was not slow so I guess the Paragon read/write file system software is much slower than the MacOS read-only software. Now I have the external 2tb SSD connected. This afternoon I finally installed Paragon. All my photos that are imported into Lightroom (1gb+) on my external 2tb SSD and the catalog is on the internal SSD. I can't really make much use of this Mac until I have a big SSD connected. There is a reason Apple disables old drivers. I decided to give it a try and after all the hassle it didn't work and I had to backtrack. The Samsung fingerprint scanner software needed special permissions (enabled from the special boot menu).

Yes, anything that needs low level permissions has a high level of risk. I am sort of nervous about installing it. It is low-level software and needs access to stuff.
UNINSTALL PARAGON NTFS 15 FOR MAC
Paragon NTFS for Mac M1 Installation Guide Paragon has a short video showing the many steps you have to go through to install:
