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Above approaches didn't work for me what did:

Hope this helps. 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?

etcher Etcher broken on macOS Catalina

Error can be worked around by


Proper solution is to get rid of the dependency or bundle it. 

etcher libgconf-2.so.4 missing on Ubuntu 18.02 Beta

I can confirm that this issue is a duplicate of #2833 which just also provides the error message in DevTools In the thread 

etcher MacOS Error with Catalina: Etcher can't read image file, throws error.

#2833 (comment)



This worked for me
1.5.57
macOS Catalina Beta (19A573a) get error - the writer process ended unexpectedly when clicking write 

etcher The Writer Process Ended Unexpectedly - Etcher

Here is a workaround (for me at least) for cannot zero sectors on disk with error code 5@0101000F 

etcher Error couldn't clean the drive...

@jhermsmeier Thank you it works 👍 I've been flashing Ubuntu and Pop!_OS images to my Sandisk 64GB stick the past few days 

etcher Etcher broke my USB

I had the same problem The solution was to unmount all the extra volumes diskutil list


diskutil unmount disk2s1
Etcher should work now 

etcher error: please check that the archive is not corrupted. every iso i try

I've been doing some experimentation in VirtualBox instances running the LiveCD versions of Ubuntu 16.10 and 17.04 and I believe I've tracked down the problem 

etcher Missing dependency in AppImage: libgconf-2

FYI Running sudo /Applications/balenaEtcher.app/Contents/MacOS/balenaEtcher appears to work. 

etcher Etcher not work on macOS Catalina

@thundron The Etcher bintray repo was working for me a couple of weeks ago Etcher version:

Latest as of July 12 2020 

etcher Ubuntu/Deb Repository Release file permissions

I think we have sufficiently established that this affects anyone trying to download files from URLs starting https://dl.bintray.com/etcher/ 

etcher 403 Forbidden error on package repository

@jviotti Thanks for the explanation makes sense now I'm using i3 FYI I already had policykit-1-gnome installed (not the two others though) 