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Etcher broken on macOS Catalina

See original GitHub issue

Etcher version: 1.5.50
Operating system and architecture: macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta (19A487l)
Image flashed: http://director.downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_full/images/raspbian_full-2019-06-24/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.zip
Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?

{"stack":"Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open '/Users/nathfreder/Downloads/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.img'","message":"EPERM: operation not permitted, open '/Users/nathfreder/Downloads/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.img'","name":"Error","code":"EPERM","syscall":"open","errno":-1,"image":"2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-full.img"}

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:38
Comments:135 (18 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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cameroncookecommented, Jul 13, 2019

Above approaches didn’t work for me, what did:

sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher

Hope this helps.

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nathfredercommented, Jun 25, 2019

Workaround: Moving your image inside balenaEtcher.app seems to do the trick. You can do this by selecting “Show Package Contents” on balenaEtcher.app and dragging your image inside of it. Then you can select your image as usual from Finder and the flashing will go ahead. Make sure you select the image inside balenaEtcher.app

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