2nd Hard Drive says space available is 2gb on a 233gb drive

While using final cut pro, my render manager said that I did not have enough space in the render folder which is on a second internal drive (233gb). How ridiculous, I thought. I know there is at least 120gb free. Sure enough, the info on the drive said that there was only 2gb of free space available. I have backed up and deleted all the files off of the drive; no go.I have repartitioned, erased, and zeroed the drive, all to no avail. No matter what I do the drive still tells me that only 2 out of 233 gb is available despite there not being any files on it at all. I gotta say I'm stuck on this. Thanks in advance.

Hi, duttonge, and welcome to Apple Discussions. Since you've deleted everything from it already, you might as well just reformat the drive in Disk Utility, giving yourself a completely clean slate on it.

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