'Not enough room' - Cannot open Lightroom catalog

I cannot open Lightroom catalog bc there is 'not enough room on the hard drive named ...' I keep erasing more and more on this hard drive and still it does not work and keeps saying the same thing. Please help!

It says 'before continuing, please make at least 20 MB available on this hard drive'. I have deleted much more than 20 MB and still nothing helps.
Under system info it says:
Lightroom version: 3.2 [692106]
Version: 10.6 [8]
Application architecture: x64
Physical processor count: 4
Processor speed: 3.0 GHz
Built-in memory: 4096.0 MB
Real memory available to Lightroom: 4096.0 MB
Real memory used by Lightroom: 185.3 MB (4.5%)
Virtual memory used by Lightroom: 2402.8 MB
Memory cache size: 0.0 MB
Displays: 1) 1920x1080
Serial Number: [removed]
Application folder: /Applications
Library Path: /Users/susanehong/Pictures/Lightroom/Lightroom 3 Catalog.lrcat
Settings Folder: /Users/susanehong/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom
Also, please note that I am able to open Lightroom under a different catalog and the photos appear but they cannot be imported bc they 'cannot be read'.
Please help!

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