Mac OS Catalina 10.15 seems to be NOT preventing writing to SD, but

balenaEtcher
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Attempting to write Raspberry PI image reports
“Something went wrong”

Same image on and older mac works

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Hi,

Forwarding your question to the Etcher team.

Regards!

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Hi,

MacOS Catalina is a beta version and we didn’t yet start porting Etcher for it.

Also it would be best to report Etcher issues in the github repo:
https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/new

There we have an issue template that helps gather useful debugging information.

Regards!

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Argh. I attempted to get information from DevTools to add to git and flash was successful.

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Tried another SD card today “something went wrong”
Where IS devtools?

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Hi @dg12 I believe you can open the devTools with the key combination of cmd+alt+i . Let me know if that doesn’t work.

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From devtools; console:

Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/Volumes/DATA/dgerman/Documents/computerstuff/hardware/pi/SDimages/i/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-lite.zip’
/Volumes/DATA/dgerman/.bin/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58

Sun Jun 30 2019 08:33:57 GMT-0400 (EDT) Open modal ({“name”:“warning”,“applicationSessionUuid”:“c8c7003a-5741-4484-b98c-4f37fe3cabb6”,“flashingWorkflowUuid”:“521ab4a8-f281-4360-8af3-6964b792d80a”,“sample”:0.1})
/Volumes/DATA/dgerman/.bin/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58

{“stack”:“Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/Volumes/DATA/dgerman/Documents/computerstuff/hardware/pi/SDimages/i/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-lite.zip’”,“message”:“EPERM: operation not permitted, open ‘/Volumes/DATA/dgerman/Documents/computerstuff/hardware/pi/SDimages/i/2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-lite.zip’”,“name”:“Error”,“code”:“EPERM”,“syscall”:“open”,“errno”:-1,“image”:“2019-06-20-raspbian-buster-lite.zip”}
console.(anonymous function) @ /Volumes/DATA/dgerman/.bin/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58
/Volumes/DATA/dgerman/.bin/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58

Flash results Object
/Volumes/DATA/dgerman/.bin/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar/node_modules/raven-js/dist/raven.js:58

Terminating IPC server

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catalina IS preventing reading from Documents directory (see GitHub Issue)

Sorry about the confusion.

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No worries. Thanks for the update. Cheers!

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I had to run the app via terminal as root:
sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher
in order to get it working. Not sure if that is advisable though.

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That is not advisable indeed, please check this issue for an in depth explanation: https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/issues/2843.

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yes, “sudo” works!!