Software Update reports...Your hard disk does not have enough space

<< Your hard disk does not have enough space-3 B is required to download and install the checked updates. Extra space is required for the optimization process. To free up space, remove files from your startup disk, then try again.>>
I've got 127GB free??!!

I ran the Disk Utility and it said that "The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK." I tried to proceed with my software update and it still says I dont have enough space. I have 159.7GB availible and the error message says I only need 3.75GB of space. What do I do now?! Thanks in advance for your help!

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    Any thoughts?
    OS X 10.6.2 on a 2GHz iMac

    Hi,
    I have 611.3 MB free.
    If you only have 611.3 MB free disk space that is NOT good. I wonder if you meant to type GB?
    If not..
    Go here for help to Free Up Space on Your Startup Disk
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    Carolyn

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  • Every time I try to back up my Macbook Pro with an external hard drive using Time Machine, I receive the error of "the disk does not have enough space". I have a 500GB hard drive and only 120GB Macbook. It worked fine before the latest Maverick's

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    My guess would be it has created an entirely new backup of your drive when you upgraded to Mavericks.
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  • Hello, Trying to run Bootcamp on my 15" Macbook Pro (Maverick).60 gig available on my computer's hard drive and 250 gig on a separate hard drive that I have attached which is single partitioned. Keeps saying "The startup disk does not have enough space"

    Hello,
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    Thanks for the advice Bob The Fisherman. I'm just reading what turbostar has kindly written and it appears that perhaps, if I take advice from you both, I need to free more space up on the computer's hard drive?
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  • I'm getting this error with bootcamp "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned"

    Here's the story...
    I had a dual boot configuration on my mac with Mac OS X Lion and Windows XP (made with bootcamp).
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    I deleted the windows partition using BootCamp.
    Tried to recreate the Windows partition with Boot Camp and got: "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned  You must have at least 10 GB of free space available"
    After reading several posts on this forum I decided to defrag the hard drive and try again. 
    The defrag did not work and I'm still getting the error, I have 22 gb of free space on my drive.
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    Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
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  • "Start-up disk does not have enough space to be partitioned"??

    Hi there, I hope someone can help.
    I've been using bootcamp for a couple of years but recently it has started to play up so I decided to reinstall a fresh. I went into OSX and ran "boot camp assistant" and deleted the partition and start again. For some reason when I try to go though "bootcamp assistant" to set up windows xp again I get an error saying "Start-up disk does not have enough space to be partitioned - You must have 10g of space available" But I check my space available I have 23.5gb free. It's driving me nuts! :/
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    B. Boot from the clone.
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    Destination means the internal drive.
    Source means the external drive.
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