Capturing issues: Disc is full

OK, I'm only having this problem with one of my Macs so not really sure what's causing the issue. Everytime I try to capture on that specific machine I get Disc is Full error and it cancels the capturing. Of course, the reason why I'm posting this is because the disc isn't full and no where near it.
OS: Leopard
FCP: I've tried it with both the most updated 5 and 5.1 (i wiped out the newest 5 and reinstalled 5.1)
Message was edited by: djricekcn

Hi djricekcn!
Don´t get me wrong... what disk are you using? Of course you´re not using system disk! (i had the same question from a friend of mine, and he was capturing for the full system disk!)
When you say "capture", you´re capturing a logged clip or capture now? I gad a client that gave me a clip to log, but he entered a wrong timecode so the clip had 23 hours... of course there was no space to capture and didn´t capture at all!
HBars

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