I am experiencing the same issu : unable to clone sd to ssd if sudo active. Without sudo, I can choose sd and ssd to copy but when I click copy I obtain permission denied... copy doesn't work.
I do not think that you need to complicate your life by installing unsupported packages with mysterious insides. The means for cloning your MicroSD to a larger disk is available in the off-the-shelf Raspbian distribution.
The above reference is to a procedure that I created for this very purpose. My goal was to redeploy a USB drive (performs much better than MicroSD) to see if this would solve most of my Raspberry Pi 2 sluggishness. It did. Even though my Pi is still swapping a bit when I use an Internet browser like Chrome or Firefox, the swapping is happening more efficiently and I experience much less annoying system stalling.
I am sure that a small variation (if any) of this would work for a connectable SATA drive (e, m, whatever).
To those having issues with the sd-hd cloning, I may have puzzled out a workaround:
1) execute piclone *without* sudo. For some reason sudo makes it not recognize the devices
1a) If you have trouble with your sdd not being recognized, try doing sudo fdisk and deleting all partitions first. I had to do this.
2) Now execute sudo ppp-hdclone as the instructions say. The piclone step will fail, but you've already done it now. Go ahead and answer "Y" when asked to switch to the SSD now.
Same here, following the instructions from the element14 website Pi Desktop User Manual_EN_Rev3.4.pdf and have not been able to clone the filesystem from Raspberry Pi uSD card to my mSATA OR usb flash drive. After installing pidesktop-base.deb I type in sudo ppp-hdclone and the SD Card Copier window appears but neither drop down window ( Copy From Device, nor Copy to Device) is available. Both are gray’d out, even though I have a 128GB mSATA card installed in the hat and a USB thumb drive in one of the Raspberry Pi3’s USB ports.
I was expecting a little better for the money that's being charged for this.
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