Not enough room on the drive - Help!

[Beggarall]

Help please. One of my external HDs is apparently full and the consequence is that Lightroom can't open a catalogue saying "there is not enough room on the drive". It is a 4TB Maxtor HD. The message says I need 20mb for it to run. I have deleted a lot of files (at least 10GB worth) but still it shows full. It is linked to an iMac and I have run disc utility and repair but the problem persists. Any suggestion as to how I can retrieve the space so that LR runs OK? Thanks in advance

[joshleb]

Have you emptied your Bin or Recycle Bin? Sometimes the files still count on the drive until they're emptied.

[mmm-five]

Are you sure it's the external HDD that it's complaining about, and not it's scratch/temp file location on your boot drive?

Either way, I'd be very wary of running any drive at 99.75% capacity. I start to get nervous when I've only got 10% left - and then start offloading/archiving older stuff to other HDDs or BD-R to clear up space (and to send to clients after a big project - although most are happy to use DropBox Business for storing/sharing).

Edited by mmm-five on Wednesday 28th April 14:58

[loudlashadjuster]

If it's not the Recycle Bin, use WinDirStat to look and see what is sucking up all the space.

[Pixelpeep Z4]

joshleb said:

Have you emptied your Bin or Recycle Bin? Sometimes the files still count on the drive until they're emptied.

it will be this. 100%

clear the bin

[mmm-five]

loudlashadjuster said:

If it's not the Recycle Bin, use WinDirStat to look and see what is sucking up all the space.

Don't think that's for Mac.

You could try Disk Inventory X to do something similar.

[alorotom]

Pixelpeep Z4 said:

joshleb said:

Have you emptied your Bin or Recycle Bin? Sometimes the files still count on the drive until they're emptied.

it will be this. 100%

clear the bin

3rd'd - I forgot and made the same mistake with a memory stick just this morning

[loudlashadjuster]

mmm-five said:

loudlashadjuster said:

If it's not the Recycle Bin, use WinDirStat to look and see what is sucking up all the space.

Don't think that's for Mac.

You could try Disk Inventory X to do something similar.

Ahh, missed that

[mmm-five]

loudlashadjuster said:

Ahh, missed that

Don't worry, I work on both, and sometime find myself with a useful utility in Windows and then go home to a Mac and try to do the same thing only then realising it's on the PC in the office.

[Beggarall]

Thanks everyone - clearing the recycle bin did the trick - phew!! Back in business!!!

[Pixelpeep Z4]

Beggarall said:

Thanks everyone - clearing the recycle bin did the trick - phew!! Back in business!!!

Great news - as you were