I was very encouraged to read that others are having exactly the same issue. I was very very very encouraged to read about the suggested workaround (from Zhe3071965392i1). However, when I checked on my PC, WMIC is already installed - is there anything else that can be done to overcome the error code "not enough free space available" (as per Meryl28376672bogq)? It's nice not to be alone with a problem but even nicer to find a solution!!
Thanks in advance!
Just in case this helps anyone else, this is what (in the end) worked for me:
In my set-up I was trying to download 663 GB to an external network drive with 2TB of free space. The local C drive had only 177 GB available. Thanks to the insight of an IT engineer, it turns out that Lightroom Downloader has to first download to the TEMP folder location - usually on the C drive - and hence can't function if there is insufficient space at this temp location. The solution was to create a new temp location on the external hard drive. After creating this location it is necessary to change the environment variables - these are the steps involved:
- The software uses a temp folder before downloading to the destination hard drive – so there needs to be sufficient space in the temp folder as well as in the destination folderUsually, the temp folder is located on the C drive.
- If the C drive has insufficient space for the temp folder, a new location (on the hard drive with sufficient space) can be set up. To do this:
- If necessary, use PowerShell to create a new folder (eg externalharddrive\temp).
- Using command prompt:
- Cmd
- Net use M: \\harddrive\Temp
- This allocates a drive letter eg M:\.
- Then, navigate through:
- System properties
- Environment variables
- System variables
- Variable name Temp
- Variable value (in this example) M:\
- Lightroom downloader should then recognise sufficient space for the temp folder as well as for the storage location.
- Afterwards, remember to change the environment variables back by choosing:
- System properties
- environment variables
- system variables
- variable name Temp
- variable value %SystemRoot%\TEMP
Hope this helps!
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