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Safari error message "Not enough disk space" when I Have 250GB of free space.

Two days ago I upgraded from OS Big Sur to OS Monterey. Immediately I had problems with 3rd party plugins in Logic Pro, so I downgraded back to OS Big Sur. After wiping my HD drive clean and reinstalling OS Big Sur I then did a Time Machine restore.

Everything appeared to be back to normal, but today I discovered I am unable to download any files from the internet in Safari. I tried to download graphic files from Canva.com account and files from my dropbox account. All download attempts either appeared to download the file but the file was not downloaded, or I get the following message:


Safari could not download the file because the disk doesn’t have enough free space.


I clearly do not have a disk shortage with 250GB of free space on my Machintosh HD.

Somehow there is a setting that has changed or a corrupt file through the time machine restore or reinstallation of OS Big Sur after deleting Monterey.


I found some advice that suggested checking the user permissions—my permissions are set correctly to read & write. Other advice was to reinstall Safari but that appears to mean reinstalling the Mac OS again.


Please help.

Thanks.


free2worship



MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Jan 10, 2022 12:34 PM

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Posted on Jan 10, 2022 12:46 PM

SOLVED.


After doing a restore from Time Machine, even though the backup file was only a few days old, the restore installed an older version of Safari. After checking my computer for updates I found that in addition to the suggestion to update to the new Mac OS, there was also "another update available" (displayed as a link in blue text) which was for Safari 15.2.


After installing the Safari update, internet downloads are working again.

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Jan 10, 2022 12:46 PM in response to free2worship

SOLVED.


After doing a restore from Time Machine, even though the backup file was only a few days old, the restore installed an older version of Safari. After checking my computer for updates I found that in addition to the suggestion to update to the new Mac OS, there was also "another update available" (displayed as a link in blue text) which was for Safari 15.2.


After installing the Safari update, internet downloads are working again.

Safari error message "Not enough disk space" when I Have 250GB of free space.

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