{"id":48798,"date":"2025-08-06T15:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48798"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:09:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:09:59","slug":"disk-utility-erase-process-has-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/disk-utility-erase-process-has-failed\/","title":{"rendered":"Disk Utility: Erase Process Has Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Especially with macOS Sequoia, I get this error almost every time I connect a hard drive or SSD and try to erase it. Disk Utility reports:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>The calling process or user lacks the proper privileges to perform this operation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The workaround is to quit and relaunch Disk Utility.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especially with macOS Sequoia, I get this error almost every time I connect a hard drive or SSD and try to erase it. Disk Utility reports: The calling process or user lacks the proper privileges to perform this operation The workaround is to quit and relaunch Disk Utility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-08-06T19:10:02Z","apple_news_api_id":"08dcd778-70a5-44e5-832b-8c007cf1dc9a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-06T19:10:03Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ACNzXeHClROWDK4wAfPHcmg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[538,30,2598,174],"class_list":["post-48798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-diskutility","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48799,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48798\/revisions\/48799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}