Problem turning off Filevault

Hi,
I am trying to turn off Filevault, but when I try to do it, a dialogue box appears saying I have insufficient diskspace. The problem is, it says an additional 4080 GB are required! Unfortunately I don't have access to a drive of such capacity, and my internal drive is a mere 80 gigs. Does anyone know why this is happening?
Any advice is appreciated!

It appears that it's a bug.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/
en/mh1908.html has some information on the size
requirements, but doesn't address the problem you're
seeing. A search in thise forums for filevault
or file vault should bring up similar
problems. AFAIK, the best thing for you to do is
backup your home folder to another volume, create
another admin user account, log into the new account,
delete the problematic account without saving the
data, recreate the account, using the same
username/password combo, log into it, copy the
Most importantly, use the same UID/GID or you will end up locking yourself out of the old account and, if the account is an administrator one, you will be locked out of your Mac administration, too.
appropriate items from the backup, and don't enable
FileVault.
Ciao,
Ermanno

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