Safari could not download file not enough free disk space message

When I try to download anything on my MacBook I am getting a disk space full message but that's really not the case. This problem started occurring since the update to mountain Lion. Any idea how I can solve the problem?

Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Downloads
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Show Info
from the contextual menu. An Info dialog should open.
Does the dialog show "You can read and write" in the Sharing & Permissions section?
In the General section, is the box labeled Locked checked?

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Safari could not download the file “iTunes12.0.1.dmg” because there is not enough free disk space. How do i resolve this issue?

From the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Time Machine
If there is a closed padlock icon in the lower left corner of the preference pane, click it to unlock the settings and authenticate. Turn Time Machine OFF, then back ON. Close the window.
Restart the computer. Try the download again.

Safari could not download the file "Firefox 20.0.dmg" because there is not enough free disk space.

What does this error message mean. I have pleanty of free disk space - Safari could not download the file “Firefox 20.0.dmg” because there is not enough free disk space.

That misleading error message can be the result of moving a download while it's in progress. Right-click the download package and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. The file you downloaded may be in the folder that opens.

Safari could not download the file -there is not enough free disk space

I've tried downloading Windows Media Viewer, StuffIt Expander, and Adobe Reader however when I do I receive an error message as follows (example is for the StuffIt Expander -similar message for the other programs): Safari could not download the file "nstuffitexp12.01.dmg" because there is not enough free disk space.
There is PLENTY of free disk space on my hard drive. The hard drive has 20 GB of Used space and 129 GB of Available space.
A few simple fixes I've tried, that did not help: I cleared my Cache, I emptied my Trash, I restarted the computer. (sorry, I'm a Mac novice -not sure what else to try)
What's wrong? How do I download these files??
I would like to open Window Media Viewer files (.wmv) and Adobe Reader files (.pdf) so I need these programs on my computer.
So as a secondary question, is there a program for Macs better suited to open and view .wmv and .pdf files?
Please help with my download / free disk space problem, this is driving me crazy (for hours now). Thank you in advance for your assistance!!

Mac OS X can open pdf files fine without Adobe's bloatware, they open by default in TextEdit - the whole of OS X's display system is actually based around pdf technology so it's easy for the system to integrate pdf tools. There are alternative tools available on MacUpdate but for reading TextEdit is fine.
wmv files should be opened with the Flip4Mac Quicktime plugin, Microsoft no longer support their own player on Mac and even supply the F4M plugin from their own download pages.
For Stuffit files (which are thankfully much rarer these days) I'd use The Unarchiver instead of Allume's fat cat.
To fix the other problem you could try changing your download location in Safari preferences, General - it may be that the location you are downloading to has the problem. You can pick anywhere you like just to test it out.

Safari unable to download the file.. not enough free disk space?

Very odd! After filling out Apple's Online Rebate Submission Completion Form, I was asked to print it out by clicking on the supplied link, but instead, I got this prompt:
Safari could not download the file because there is not enough free disk space!
Of course, this is totally ludicrous because I just bought this computer and it has a 500 Gb hard drive!
Any idea what's going on?
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Tried using Firefox instead of Safari. The prompt I got in this instance ultimately had to do with changing the permissions on my download folder? Odd.
When I tried to add myself (as the administrator) to the list, the info window crashed. When I clicked on "everyone" and changed permissions to read and write (instead of just read), I was able to download the form as a pdf.

When i try to download a file i get the message not enough free disk space

what could be wrong when i get this message" not enough free disk space"? could it be the hard drive? p.s. my computer won't boot up except in recovery mode

Yes. The disk drive has too much data on it. You are either going to have to move some to other disk drives or delete some.

Update download trouble: App Store says, in error, "-not enough free disk space"

I wonder if anyone can help me troubleshoot this... I am unable to download some updates as from the App Store, and instead get an error message that suggests I don't have enough free disk space despite there being over 100GB free.
More detail: after installing Mavericks successfully, I started updating a few applications. While downloading iMovie and iPhoto there was an error - can't recall what the pop-up said, but I think it was a fairly general kind of error message. When I then tried to download them again, the App Store gave me an error message about free disk space, so I deleted a bunch of files and tried again. Same result, same error message ("Your hard disk does not have enough free space"). I checked on free space, however, and at this point I had over 100GB of free space.
I tried deleting the com.apple.storeagent folder in my Library/Caches folder, then trying again. but it made no difference. I've restarted, repaired permissions, verified the disk, restarted again, and I'm still seeing the error.
One odd feature of this problem: in the App Store purchases tab (see screengrab below), the icons for both iMovie and iPhoto are missing/broken, which might just point the way to what is going wrong.
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IMac 27", 2009
2.8GHz i7
12GB RAM
Running OS X 10.9
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From the menu bar, select
 ▹ System Preferences ▹ Time Machine
If the padlock icon is closed, click it to unlock the settings and authenticate. Turn Time Machine OFF, then turn it backON and close the preference pane. Wait a few minutes, then try the operation again.

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My downloads were working perfectly fine a few days ago. Then one day I closed my Macbook to sleep and when I opened it all my settings had been reset, my background was gone, everything in iTunes was deleted, and my Skype and ooVoo had been deleted.
Now when I try to re-download it, it tells me "Not enough free disk space"
My Hardrive space has about 85GB. Can someone help me troubleshoot?

Did you try rebooting?
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"Not Enough Free Disk Space" error message, but Finder shows plenty of disk space available

Apologies if this is a double post, but I have been searching all over and can't seem to find this issue in the forums.
I have a 256GB Macbook with a fresh copy of Lion installed, am going through the process of migrating files back over, after which I have approximately 125GB free. However, whenever I go online and try to download any type of file (PDF, sofware install files, etc.), an error message displays saying:
Safari could not download the file “blahblahblah.dmg” because there is not enough free disk space.
Not sure how this is possible since the .dmg file is 18MB and Finder is saying there is over 125GB free. I've tried repairing disk permissions, booting off the Lion recovery disk and repairing the startup disk, all to no avail. Anyone had this issue before?

Don Archibald wrote:
Check in Safari's Preferences (in the Safari menu) to see what has been designated as the destination for downloads. If that has somehow been set to a disk image or a CD/DVD location, you'll get that 'not enough space' message.
The same may occur if the download target location is set to a non-available drive. This can happen when aliases are used and things have been copied (migrated) from another drive.
Thanks for the suggestion. That wasn't the problem, but your suggestion did shed light on something else. I was able to perform a right-click action and Save File As... to my Documents folder. On further analysis, it appears that the "Macintosh HD", Downloads folder, and Desktop are showing the "pencil with a line through it" icon in the bottom left of the Finder window, which would suggest those areas are read-only for some reason.
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NOT ENOUGH FREE DISK SPACE - PLS HELP

I need urgent help. I am trying to download some university lectures and get the following error;
safari could not download the file "INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES.doc", filename="INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES.doc", filename="INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES.doc", filename="INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES.doc", filename="INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES.doc", filename="INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES.doc" because there is not enough free disk space. Try deleting documents or download to another disk.
Now I have available capacity of 44.11GB on my HD and 900GB free on my external hard-drive. The 'not enough free space' error message appears when i try to download to either location.
Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks

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Issue 2: Not enough free disk space

Well, now that I'm here, I will try to figure out all my problems.
Ignoring the fact that my MacBook won't turn on, once it goes back to normal, I hope I can solve another thing. Two or three times, while I've been working in heavey Word documents in my Macbook, a message box appears when I click on save or when it tries to do "Autorecovery". It says there's not enough free disk space for me to save that file. What I do every time is I select all, then copy and then quit word. I open it again, paste and save. Everything is fine, but I'd really like to know *** is wrong since I do have a lot of free disk space and this doesn't happen unless it's a heavy file in word. Should I get rid of some apps? Unused files? I don't have that many... I think my Macbook is acting weird since I've almost got nothing stored in it but files, pictures and songs. Any ideas on how to prevent this from happening again?

Get Info on your hard drive or open a finder window and see how much space is available on your drive - that's at the bottom. Music, pictures, movies use more disk space than most files. You might have enough space sometimes because various programs - like Safari - cache material and the caches can get large. Some caches empty themselves and others need to be emptied; you can empty the Safari cache from one of the menus.

Prompt 'not enough free disk space'.

I keep being prompted ''there is not enough free disk space'' when i try downloading files. I am only attempting to download a file of less than 1mb and ive done a diagnostics and my hard drive has 218gb free. How can i resolve this issue? Please advise!

check the size you set for redo logfiles and datafile in previous screen.

Not enough free disk space, even though there is!

I have the late 2013 Macbook Pro, 15in high end model.
I have an application refusing to update as it is not seeing enough free disk space on the HD. The is currently 160GB used and 340GB free space.
I have disabled Time Machine local snapshots via Terminal to clear the 'fake' free space. I have also repaired disk permissons.
Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
Let me just be clear that this is on a recently re-installed OS which was restored from a backup. There is definitely ONLY 160GB being used. Ihave also run the system through Omnidisk to be sure.
I am still having issues getting this particular application to update as it refuses to see that there is plenty of space on the HD. I am not having this issue with any other program.

Published in February 2014.
I managed to resolve the issue. The application was definitely not recognising space correctly. It uses a java-based launcher. Rather than redownloading the whole 28GB I was able to re-install the launcher and abort the complete download then reinsert the content files.
Then let it patch the rest (5GB).
Just an extremely poorly put together launcher package.
Although I have no way of knowing whether turning off local backups assisted this.
Thanks for your response.

Not Enough Free Disk Space to Burn - - Please HELP!!!

Hello -
I'm having a lot of trouble creating my iMovie and DVD. After several days of trying to delete applications and files off of my hard drive, I apparently still do not have enough free disk space to burn the DVD. This is very frustrating for me as I've created several movies/DVDs in the past and haven't had this much trouble. (I have deleted the old movies for more space.)
I have used Monolingual to delete unnecessary language files, and have deleted the iDVD plist as was suggested in other threads, however I still do not have enough free space.
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Lindsay,
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Yes, 44GB is sufficient. I don't think space is the problem. I don't know about iMovie but iDVD can only use the boot drive for its scratch disk.
You might be getting that error due to some damage file in the project.
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1 - delete the IDVD preference file, com.apple.iDVD.plist, that resides in your
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2 - delete IDVD'S cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
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3 - launch IDVD and try again.
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