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When migrating the catalog I always g t he error, I even moved all my original photos out to an external drive before beginning.
I think this is q problem in Mac OS - High Sierra. Adobe Lightroom CC expects 174 GB of free space.
The hard disk indicates 336 GB free. However Mac OS also has 222 GB eraseable space . I think Adobe only recognizes this net of 114 GB totally free space not the disk available space. Bug maybe ?
Any advice on this ? Lightroom CC@
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I moved all photo's to an external drive with plenty of space and that works as no 'erase-able space'.
Question now is how do I get the data back to my MBP folders@?
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This is probably due to APFS keeping "purgeable storage" around, and a bug in LR where it fails to access this perfectly usable space.
To hack around this, you can go into Terminal and do the following.
$ df -h #shows 32G free
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 932Gi 896Gi 32Gi 97% 812940 9223372036853962867 0% /
# this step takes a while -- monitor your disk space
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=zeros bs=9000 #and then hit CTRL-C once your disk is completely full
^C17539950+0 records in
17539949+0 records out
350798980000 bytes transferred in 554.492292 secs (632648974 bytes/sec)
$ rm zeros #delete the large temp file
$ df -h #shows 328G free
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1 932Gi 600Gi 328Gi 65% 812842 9223372036853962965 0% /
Then retry your import. This worked for me.