LR 4.3 says drive is too full when there is 468GB remaining

I just started working with LR, importing photographs from my Nikon D800 folders and storing them on an External USB 3.0 WD 3TB drive (I drive).
I'm using LR4.3 Dell Optiplex 990 Intel Core i7-2600 CPU W 3.4GHz 16.0GB RAM Windows 7 Ultimate SP1, Storage 2TB Hitachi (E drive), 468GB available...
I've told LR to use drive I and I confirm in both LR and in Windows Explorer that that is what it is doing.
When importing, why does LR4.3 continuously tell me I have to delete files on my 'E' drive to "make room" the drive before LR can continue? The importing is being done to the I drive.
- thanks!
Batcave2

Hello Jim – thanks for your note. In response to your questions:
1. No, I’m not using the “make second copy” option
2. When I began using LR 4.3 the first catalogue was created on the E drive, which is resident in the Dell desktop. It was the original catalogue I used when first working with LR 2.0 etc. The OS and User files are on the C drive which is a 256GB SSD. For space reasons I recently moved all LR activity to the external USB 3TB drive and that is where the catalogues are now.
What you say regarding the E drive, which has 468GB remaining, makes academic sense concerning “20% space remaining”. What is slightly confusing is, LR constantly asked that I delete “20MB” to satisfy the Program’s needs for space. I think you’d agree that such a message doesn’t make sense in this day of huge TB drives when we’re talking factors of just over 10 in terms of space availability and Program requirements. All the same, I’ve “removed” the E drive and the catalogues from LRs “Folders” section and have only the external I drive doing the work with the catalogues. I will let you know if the message re-appears. I don’t expect it to for the reasons you’ve given but we’ll see. I hope this info helps.
Cheers,
Don Hudson
Vancouver, BC

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