Sparseimage says not enough room to move items, even when there is

Hi. I've created and used sparseimages successfully in the past for storing content that I want to be kept secure. Today though, I created a new sparseimage of 20GB using Disk Utility. When I tried to move files into it that were much smaller than 20GB (like 4GB), it wouldn't let me move them into the new sparseimage, and instead told me that there wasn't enough free space. This has never happened to me before, and I'm not sure why an empty sparseimage, created to hold up to 20GB, won't let me transfer files into it. I have 23 GB remaining on my hard drive in general, so it shouldn't be a problem of not enough space to make the copy. Thanks for any advice!

It would appear that you need much more free space on your Boot volume then, even if you have plenty of space on the external for the DMG, the boot drive will still need space to use for VM & Temp files for making it on the external Drive.
You're in danger of corrupting the Internal drive with that little space, not to mention the great speed reduction.
In a pinch, there are ways to set VM to use an external drive, but I don't recommend it.

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