Aperture to Lightroom plugin storage issue

The plugin doesn't seem to refresh the available storage space number when changed to an external drive that has plenty of space. As my aperture libraries are both 250GB and I'm on a macbook with about 70gb remaining, it causes a bit of an issue.
Any thoughts?

Very sorry about the late reply.  Was having issues posting to the forum and forgot to come back.
What I'd do is relocate all your managed images to "referenced" on the same 4tb drive.  In doing so, make sure you choose a folder/file convention that will match the physical structure you'd like to see in Lightroom.  This choice is not mandatory, but is helpful.  Note: If you convert managed images, they'd just wind up in one locatino.
I should have asked what size your Aperture library is.  If you have space for all your images a second time over, then yes, you should not be seeing this error.  But if you're using the plugin on a library with many managed images, the plug-in needs to copy those images, even if it's on the same drive, to a location outside your Aperture library.  That's why it's helpful to relocate them as "referenced" images before the conversion.

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