Couldn't create temporary file.

I have a 1TB drive in my Mac Pro running Mavericks 10.9.4 and I went to disk utility to erase some free space on the drive. However I keep getting the error message:
Secure Erase Free Space failed
Secure erase Free Space failed with the error:
Couldn't create temporary file.
I Googled the error message and couldn't find anything. The error message is heaps unhelpful, it doesn't tell me why it couldn't create a temporary file or what I can do to fix it. Please help, it would be much much appreciated!

I have a time machine backup that is up to date, with tons of extra space. Could I copy over the files I have on my macbook pro hard drive and recopy back once I have wiped out the hard drive, thinking maybe there is a problem copied onto the ™ backup?

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