No disk space left error

I keep getting prompted that I have no disk space left, but I have over 40GB left. It then wants me to force quit my applications in order to continue doing anything. My mac is also running a lot slower lately and I constantly have to force quit applications because they freeze. I just got it about 2 months ago, so I really don't understand the problem.

Sorry.
Yes, I have 116 Gb available. If I had not much than 14 Gb, I'd figure the problem!
About the fragmentation... well, since my computer is new (around october 2007) and I never passed beyond my 116 Gb free space, I doubt the disk is too fragmented. At least, I never took care of fragmentation on Mac OS.
I just discovered that DiskWarrior 3 does not work on my system (10.5.1), so I don't even know another tool for fragmentation.
Thank you.

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Not enough disk space left error

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The clip I want to import is 1.69 Gigabytes.
By any chance, is the "clip" a compressed QuickTime movie? If so, when iMovie converts it to DV a 1.69GB movie may expand quite a lot. Please describe the clip.
And describe the disk the project resides on. Is it an internal disk or external disk?
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I just had the same problem this morning. I tried to import a 500MB mp4 into iMovie HD, and I have 9.5GB on my hard drive, but the same error message came up.
If the 500MB mp4 file was highly compressed and iMovie converted it to DV, it's quite possible iMovie would run out of disk space.
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SqueezyMo wrote:
Good time of day, everyone!
In my program, I have to copy files of a quite substantial size from one media onto another. Since the free space is limited, I need to catch the case when it gets no longer available. The total size of files is unknown and cannot be computed beforehand (random element), so checking availability before copying each file would barely make sense. You're burning CDR's or DVDR's, right? The common approach to "making stuff fit" is to pre-build a file collection... to burned when the user "commits" the selection (by pressing a burn button). This allows the user to organise the content to "best fit" accross multiple media... most burners now automatically workout "best fit" based purely on size (I guess using some sort of [backpack algorithm|http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Backpack+problem]).
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