This came with quite a few challenges, especially since Apple increased security for macOS, not allowing me to do certain things straight from my program (see also SMJobBless: Elevated Privileges in Lazarus Pascal). Besides that, having to enter your “ sudo” password each time was a pain as well, and came with the occasional problems for a small group of users, so that had to go as well.Ībout 2 years ago I decided to rebuild ApplePi-Baker from scratch, no longer using any of the command-line tools. Over time, the use of command-line tools came with some problems thanks Apple for changing command-line tool output with every new version of macOS. This way, ApplePi-Baker became my personal frontend for command-line tools like “ dd“, “ diskutil“, “ mount” etc. Late 2013, I created ApplePi-Baker for my own use – I just got tired of looking up the proper command-line statements.
Users do not just use ApplePi-Baker for this purpose anymore – I have seen users use it for backup and restore of pretty much anything not Raspberry Pi related.
ApplePi-Baker has become well known amongst Raspberry Pi users, with a Mac running macOS, to backup and restore SD-cards.
