Aperture library volume full

I have received this message "there is not enough free space on your aperture library to import selected items" I do not know wwhy there is not enough space when I have the library on a separate hard drive in the computer. Please help.

I had one occurrence on my Quad, but under 1.0.1/10.4.5 as I recall.
I emptied the Trash, and then I ran Disk Utility/Repair Permissions and some permissions were reset. The problem has not recurred. So, unknown if it was coincidental, whether closing Aperture and reopening was the solution. However, I now routinely run Disk Utility/Repair which mostly gives me a thumbs up, but occasionally does reset a/some permissions.
The Quad is 2x500Gb in a RAID 0 configured as two spanned partitions. Aperture's library was on the Alpha partition, was 145Gb in size and which had around 200Gb of free space. Vault was on a 300Gb external firewire drice.

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