"Your system is low on disk space" during Backup

Whenever I try and perform a backup, PSE 8 errors with "Your system is low on disk space, and Elements Organizer cannot perform this operation. Try removing some fiels to free up disk space."
The problem is that I have five disks on this system (brand new Dell i7-920 with 8GB RAM, btw), with the *smallest* amount of free space being 280GB. I get the problem on all disks. My system disk (c:) has 689GB of free space.
I had this problem on my old computer, which also had plenty of free space on the traget external backup disk, but only had about 30GB free on the system disk, so I assumed it was a lack of working space on the system disk for buffering, queuing, whatever...
My catalog is about 30,000 items, totalling about 175GB (according to PSE at the beginning of the backup process).
Any ideas??

Yes, I am still facing the same issue, but have long since come up with another backup scheme, and no longer require a resolution.
Also, I only want PSE to update photos and only photos - no video, audio or anything else. I don't believe the built in backup function allows for that.
Thanks anyway.
Mark

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I have a Dell running Windows 7. The system and programs is on a 200 GB solid state drive with about 50 GB free which is my C drive. The photos and videos are on a 2 TB hard drive with 1 TB free which is my D drive. I am trying to do a routine backup to an external 2 TB drive which has 1.5 TB free but I get the message "your system is low on disk space and Elements Organiser cannot perform this operation".
I have backed up before when the catalogue was about 100 GB but it is now about 180 GB. I created a test catalogue with just a few photos in and that backed up without a problem.
Can anyone help? Is PSE trying to create a large temporary file on the C drive so that is the problem? If so, what is the solution?

I was able to do an incremental backup. Having done that I had another try at a full backup and it worked!
I tried everything every other possibility suggested by forums without success and it seems to be an issue others have so it's worth a try for them. It clearly was nothing to do with system resources so that was a waste of very many hours.
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kdrozzen a écrit:
Total disk space for pictures is 192 MB.
Do you really mean MB (megabytes) or GB (gigabytes) ?
Even if its GB, the free space may be enough, depending on your files size, especially with videos or raw files.
When you start the backup process, it first shows you the total size of the catalog.

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Hi and thanks in advance, I took my computer into a tech repair shop and they said they couldn't handle it but I needed to call Adobe.
1. I have a 2TB 7200 RPM SATA-3G RAID (2 x 1TB HDD) (HP Model Pavillion Elite HPE-450t, 9 GB SDRAM
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4. I have about 500 GB free on my C drive and my back up files are about 500 GB. I have lots of videos and scanned photos.
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we are running a HV-2012 Cluster. most of the VM's are backuped by DPM 2012 r2.
Recently i noticed some "CSV low disk Space Warning" withing SCOM.
Today i looked at one of the CSV's.
The Size is 1800GB and if you look at the Size of all the Folders on the Volume within the Explorer they are 1250 GB.
After that i looked a the Failover Cluster Manager -> Storage -> Disk: This console states that there are only 36GB Free on the Volume.
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First thing is that you're running out of space and need to move quickly to make space while you figure this out. When you run out of space, the VMs will shut down.
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back into one file.
So, if you're backup time for this VM takes hours, during that time, the VM disk space usage can grow a lot more that what it would usually use. If you run out of disk space then, backup will fail, the VM will be suspended, and you cannot bring it online,
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