Unable to Turn Off File Vault - I don't have enough Free Space on my System Drive.. Any Advise?

I am trying to Turn-Off File Vault on my MacBook Pro. The Following Message Appears: There isin't enough Space on your Harddrive to Turn File Vault Off.
It requires an additional 28.7Gb of Free Disc Space on my System Drive to proceed... I currently only have 4,78Gb of Space available on my System Drive..
Any advise on how to do this??

Better yet, could you adjust the size of the partition of your System Partition? I didn't know you had your HD Partitioned, I would really avoid moving the whole Applications folder off it is possible it will mess things up. Maybe give it more room, so that file vault can copy everything over. If that is possible to just take space from the Projects and give it to System, that would be the best option.
Thanks,
Kevin

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My initial problem with File Vault was that I am running out of space even though the drive has additional capacity. In an earlier post I learned that this is due to the fact that when File Vault is turned on it is effectively it's own volume. Unfortunately I do not have enough disk space to turn off File Vault. I installed a new 500GB drive and installed Leopard. When I attempt to turn off File Vault I am still getting a message that I do not have enough disk space to turn it off. It appears as though the additional space is required on the same File Vault volume regardless of the size of the hard drive. I'm sure I must be doing something wrong, but this seems absurd.

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Turned on file vault a few months ago. Can't be too safe you know. Computer began running erratically. Many many odd things began to happen. iphoto could not find any of my 8000 photos. (photos are still on my hard drive though), Mail keeps making me re-establish mail as if I am a first time user, ical repeatedly dumps everything, items show up on my dock that weren't there before, items missing from the dock, lost all 200 of my bookmarks in Safari, all my system preferences are constantly being reset.
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you would think, seeing how this is obviously a known bug, that apple would do a better job of explaining the setbacks of using FileVault. unfortunately, most of us "common people" aren't privy to this type of information until it's too late..as we're relentlessly searching forum posts at 2am because our 2 week old computer is riddled with error messages.
to my recollection, i never even activated FileVault. as i recall, i first noticed it when i installed Tiger, so i just wrote it off as a new feature. in fact, it ran successfully until i transfered all of my data from my old PowerBook over to my new iMac and then updated to Leopard. now, out of my remaining 233GB available, it's telling me i have less than 1GB left in my home folder. and, as everyone else has been saying, trying to just simply turn FileVault off is futile. it seems that no matter what you're going to get some sort of contradictory error message. for instance, i've only used 37GB of space in my home folder, yet when i go to turn FileVault off it tells me that i need to delete 41GB before i can turn it off. interesting.
fortunately i already have a 500GB external drive that i've since backed the entire contents of my HD onto. however, i'm curious, as captainphx's question from his initial thread went unanswered..if i copy these (encrypted) files over to my external drive, do a clean install of the OS, ensure that FileVault is turned OFF, then copy the files back to my iMac, will there be complications?
i'm going to attempt to call apple support tomorrow, so hopefully i can get this resolved. i'll follow up with the results of that discussion. if apple's not going to make this information readily available then, by god, i will.

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