Hi everyone, I’m trying to flash Astroberry (2.0.3) to a micro SD card and I keep getting the following message: ‘Something went wrond. If it is a compressed image, please check that the archive is not corrupted. User did not grant permission’. I’ve tried running etcher as admin, to no avail. Can…

Hello @houthans Welcome to the Balena Forums. You can confirm the integrity of the archive by running sha256sum astroberry-server_2.0.3.img.zip in a Linux console or CertUtils -hashfile astroberry-server_2.0.3.img.zip SHA256 from a Windows command prompt and comparing the output with the hash show…

Hi Markcorbinuk, Thanks for getting back to me. I’m using version 1.5.116 and here’s the console output: Version = 1.5.116, Type = nsis gui.js:52086 Thu Feb 25 2021 20:10:26 GMT+0100 (Midden-Europese standaardtijd) Application start ({“packageType”:“nsis”,“version”:“1.5.116”,“sample”:0.1,“applica…

I had noticed that thread as well, but the thing is that I can’t seem to find controlled folder access, even though I’m admin in windows on this computer.

Did you try to run Etcher as Administrator clicking on that option (if there is)? Yesterday I had a similar issue on mac and i run Etcher with sudo

Ha! It’s working now. I did run it as admin earlier, but now I’ve tried a different route and something’s happening and it looks like its good! Many thanks!

I selected etcher from the list in explorer and then right-clicked it to select run as admin. Before that, I had used the list of apps that you get when clicking on the windows icon.

Error flashing Astroberry to SD card

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Error flashing Astroberry to SD card

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