I'm trying to move files from an external hard drive to my iMac's HD. It tells me "The operation can’t be completed because the disk is full."
I'm running Catalina 10.15.5
According it appears that I have 90GB free. I've tried moving a single small file and it won't let me. I have also tested and the external can copy to my macbook pro just fine running the same OS version.
iMac 21.5″ 4K, macOS 10.15
It looks like the volume needs repairing.
You should make sure that you have up to date backups.
Restart from Recovery, run Disk Utility and do First Aid on the drive. What do you see? Does it indicate any errors? Is it able to fix them?
Re-index the Macintosh HD
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
follow the steps in the article but add the MacHD for a Minute in the list and remove it.
Close every running App and try typing something in Spotlight on the top left corner. You will see a process.
Reboot and test again.
Another option is to check the external and internal volumes using Disk Utility.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210898
What application were you using?
To what drive?
When adding a value to be excluded from spotlight, open system preferences, locate spotlight, when adding using the + sign in the center of the window you will see a drop down menu
didn't work. This just removed the MacHD from the finder window. I'm not able to remove it from the spotlight privacy tab as it doesn't show there.
I ran disk utility and it appeared to help briefly but then the issue came back.
How I'm getting the following error on the Macintosh HD - Data item in Disk Utility
error: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x301511771): nchildren (10) does that match the drec count (11)
i was using Finder to move files from an external HD to my MacHD into a subfolder
The operation can’t be completed because the disk is full.
