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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error Apps
Recently, I tried to export 800 images (<1G) from iPhoto 4.0.1 and got the message that I had insufficient disk space to complete the operation despite having 20G free on my HD.

I checked the internet to look for others with this problem. There were several comments about iPhoto remembering the size of the original HD on which it was installed and several workaround solutions but no solution till now...

Turns out the solution is easier than the workarounds (e.g export to alternative HD etc). All you have to do is to erase the iPhoto preference file ~/Library -> Preferences -> com.apple.iPhoto.plist and all is good again.
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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error
Authored by: cudaboy_71 on Apr 12, '04 11:22:42AM

i cant get iPhoto to give me the error at the moment. but, i've never changed the 60gb drive from my powerbook. next time i get the 'out of space' error i'll try 86'ing the pref file. but, i do not believe the original installation drive size is the root of the problem.

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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error
Authored by: orourke on Apr 12, '04 11:23:08AM

I came across this problem this weekend. They way I solved it was to close and restart iPhoto. That solved it for me.



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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error
Authored by: PDubNYC on Apr 13, '04 09:57:10PM

This is definitely not caused by original disk size. I ran into it last weekend after installing iPhoto 4 on my dad's iMac (disks have never changed). Somehow I fixed it by trying to just export 1 pic at a time, and then when I tried to do many again, it worked fine.

Just to ask, anyone know of a way to change the filename to match the photo's name in iPhoto? My old man wants the photos to stay in the order he sets in iPhoto when he burns a CD to send to friends. He named the pics 1, 2, 3 etc... but the file name doesn't change, which is the whole point when making his CD.



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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error
Authored by: hct on Apr 14, '04 06:41:07PM

Apple has a KB Article (No. 93680 at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93680) about this problem and says updating to 4.0.1 should solve it.



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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error
Authored by: jfaughnan on Apr 15, '04 01:29:26PM

This is one of my favorite iPhoto bugs. It's a meaningless error message that seems to arise from several problems.

The two most common causes are corruption in a thumbnail and a less common problem related to disk size. One time it occurred to me every time an export reduced free disk space to exactly 3GB. DECREASING free disk space beyond that level allowed export to occur.

Known fixes:

1. Deleting the prefs as mentioned here.
2. Upgrade to 4.01 (didn't work for this guy).
3. Deleting the image thumbnail caches (as per the referenced kb article).
4. Splitting exports in half until one isolates the "bad" image, then performing an operation that regenerates the thumbnail. (Crop then revert.)

In general a lot of OS X problems seem to be related to cache corruption. Makes me wonder about the low level BSD interfaces.

iPhoto has had a rocky development course. Rumor has it the product team has undergone a shakeup, but rumor also has it that iPhoto gets very little respect and focus within Apple. Rumor is worth what you pay for it :-).

I guess Jobs was always a guitar geek and not a camera nerd.

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A solution for iPhoto's 'Not enough Disk Space' error
Authored by: jfaughnan on May 02, '04 11:04:33AM

The problem just hit me again. This time I tried Panther Cache Cleaner and deleted all the caches (deep clean). I didn't remove the plist file. The problem resolved. Deleting the thumb images didn't help.

I wonder how bad Panther's underlying cache corruption problems are.

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