I'm trying to copy 28 MB of data from iCloud to my hard drive, but it says there isn't enough free space.
But it shows that I have plenty of space.
What is going on and what should I do?
Mac mini, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)
Some things to try.
In the absence of more information and assuming you attempted to copy to different local drives I would initially suspect the problem to be network/iCloud related. Especially since you recently ran out of space.
However, worth covering all basis.
Looking at iCloud Drive through icloud.com through Safari shows a lot of folders with strange names.
It shows 2.36 GB available.
As your original problem were solved and this is a different issue I would say log a new Q worded to the new problem.
Or do you think the "Solved" were not really what you thought at the time?
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Further to my last post. The more I think about it the more I suspect even though your iCloud don't show full that is is full because space are being reserved for files yet to sync.
Looking at the thread linked below it looks possible that things can get messed up enough that you need Apple support. So once you done with the actions in last suggestion (turning off iCloud), if it still claim you have not enough space on iCloud while you should have when you, for example, copy a file to it, give Apple a call.
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