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chris566

macrumors regular
Original poster
Oct 11, 2010
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The item “x” can’t be copied because there isn’t enough free space

This is the message I get when I try to copy from my MPB over the network to my external HD which is connected to my WDTV live. I have over a terabyte of available space on it and I'm trying to copy a 500 MB file to it. This happens a lot with different files types and sizes. Sometimes it allows me to copy, sometimes it won't. Has anybody experienced this and know how to get around this error. It's very frustrating.

I'm using snow leopard. The WD external HD I'm using is in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Thanks for any help.
 
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