"Insufficient disk space" to upgrade Aperture library to v.3

I'm getting an "Insufficient disk space" and then an "upgrade failed" error when launching Aperture 3 with my old Aperture 2 library, hoping to upgrade it. My Aperture 2 library is 85.94 GB, and I have 15.31 GB free on my 250 GB disk.
Does anyone know how much space it needs for the upgrade? How can I get this working? Thanks for your help.

presta wrote:
I can't believe that Aperture 3 – with the "update imaging" box unchecked – will increase the size of my database by +over 18%+ and this is just really badly designed.
I do not know but I am wondering if there is some faulty arithmetic going on and it's not looking for say 20% more space, but over 100% more space? In other words, I wonder if people with more free space on their system than their Aperture Library size are seeing this problem. Those with less free space than the size of their library may share your problem. That certainly would be a bug rather than a design flaw I would think, but I don't know what the AP3 format conversion is doing internally in the library before it finishes the process. If you wanted a failsafe method, you could design it in a way that virtually duplicated everything and only did the final step of deleting the AP2 originals when the revisions were successful. Sounds speculative but someone else needs to respond here that only has a modest amount of free space like you yet converted a large library successfully with all the bells and whistles turned on (new RAW, new imaging).
You might be able to call an talk to an Apple technician as I'm sure if there is a bug or design flaw, others will have called already to get the workaround. Unfortunately I won't have the problem that I am suspecting since my free space is greater than my library on this new iMac.
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