MacFUSE provides OS X with the capability of read/write access to a disk volume formatted NTFS. NTFS is the current Windows standard format. Without MacFUSE or some equivalent software OS X only has read access to NTFS volumes. It is provided by Parallels to improve the compatibility and transparency between the OS X and Windows environments when running Windows in Parallels Desktop.
You will find MacFUSE in the Other section of System Preferences. The preference panel will check for and install the latest version of MacFUSE and will optionally check for beta versions. The current beta is 2.1.5.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
— Albert Einstein
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