Lightroom 2 keeps reporting "disk space is low" ... and it's not low...

I have a 2.0 terabyte RAID-5 disk array, of which approximately 1.5 TB is free. At periodic intervales, LIghtroom 2 reports "disk which contains your Lightroom catalog, is low on space," and requests that I try to free up 20MB.
Heeeeeeeelloooo, Lightroom2. 1.5 TB > 20 MB.
What could be causing this? Vista reports 1.5 TB free. So does the RAID controller. Only Lightroom seems to be panicking.

I also experienced the "low space" warning. I was told that it had to do with the amount of free space being a multiple of (or at least ending in a particular number). If Lightroom sees that the free-space figure ends in a particular number, it chokes and gives you the "out of space" error.
To get around this error, I created a temporary folder into which I copied ~100MB of images. This altered the free-space figure just enough that I stopped getting the error. After my next photo import, I deleted the temporary folder.
Hopefully this issue is resolved before I hit another "trigger number".

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25% seems pretty arbitrary and unreasonable.
With today's drive that means on a 2TB drive I need to keep 1/2 TB free. That means I am paying for 2TB with only 1.5 usable just to use LR. In my case where I have four 2TB drive I have to have 2TB free or equivalently have an entire drives worth of space (4*500M) I should not be using.
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Message Edited by mowax on 02-Dec-2009 02:38 PM
Message Edited by mowax on 02-Dec-2009 02:39 PM
Solved!
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Hi, don't know wether you've done this, but go into messaging/options/settings/other/memory in use/set as E:mass memory. If this causes a problem with email, simply delete mailbox and re-install it, it only takes a couple of minutes. One other thing , if you want to save any txt messages, sync with ovi first.Also to get C memory back delete all messages sent , recieved, reports etc before selecting Memory in use as E. Also go to web browser and clear privacy data regularly. One other thing to note is that usually when connected to computer via usb, messaging memory will revert to C, and you won't be able to see any messages , so reset to E again and they are all there. Best taskmanager from Ovi store is also a real help with memory on phone.
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