Do not allow automatic target selection for a retry operation

• Etcher version: 1.0.0-beta.17
• **Operating system and architecture:**macOS Sierra v10.12.2 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 Mac Mini My Mac Mini (Mid 2011) has a SD card reader, a SATA SSD as the Mac operating system disk and also a SATA drive as a data disk
• Do you see any meaningful error information on DevTools?

I was creating a Raspberry Pi boot image on a SD card plugged into the built-in SD card reader of my Mac Mini. The process completed with an error (I think it was something about not being able to unmount the SD card disk) and the ‘Retry’ button was in red. I clicked ‘Retry’ but unfortunately, the SD card had been unmounted and I didn’t notice a different disk (my SATA data disk) had been selected as the target drive for the image copy. So I’ve spent the afternoon recovering the data for my SATA disk as Etcher had put the Raspberry Pi image on to my SATA drive.

I would suggest more checks are made in Etcher before allowing a retry operation; do not allow automatic target selection for retry; use the same unix device mount point for a retry, or get the user to actively choose the target disk if the previous target has been unmounted.

[jviotti]

Oh, damn, so there are two “Device Location” keys in your output. WTF?

   Device Location:          Internal
   ...
   Device Location:          "Lower"

[jviotti]

Closing as the real fix is to solve the way to detect drives