“Not Enough Space on Disk”

[Willie Justus]

I have about 500 gb left of free storage space on my disk and tried to download the stories SDX last night. At about 1 GB info download I keep getting an error message that essentially says there isn’t enough room to download. I have quadruple checked and I absolutely have the space on my Mac. To humor myself I even deleted my favorite State of the Art SDX just to see if I could “make room” for the Stories expansion. Now I keep receiving the same message on both and don’t have the ability to use any of my expansions.

Operating system: macOS Big Sur (11)

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[josehilson]

Hello, you can use a tool like DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to visualize your disk usage and find hidden or large files that might be taking up space. If you’re using a specific application to download the expansion, try restarting it or even reinstalling it.

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[John]

Hi,

do you have any software installed that saves “Snapshots” of your drive, like e.g. Carbon Copy Cloner? I had this problem on several drives that showed plenty of free space when I hit Cmd+I but didn’t let me install because of no space left.

You can also check this article about viewing and deleting local snapshots in the built-in Disk Utility:

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/disk-utility/dskuf82354dc/mac

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
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