Winrar There Is Not Enough Space On The Disk

[Mandy Geise]

ihave a compressed file on my D: and its roughly 1.3 gigs, but when i try to decompress it to the same D: drive, it comes back and says I don't have enough space on my C: drive, and suddenly, i have 0bytes available.

WinRAR's temp directory is probably pointing at %TEMP% (which is likely on your C: drive). Unfortunately I'm not on a Windows machine so I can't tell you the exact location to change this, but there should be an option in WinRAR's settings to configure the temp directory's location.

Open WinRAR, then go to Options->Settings (Ctrl+S). Switch to "Paths" tab, there you can change the path for "Folder for temporary files". I leave it blank, so that temporary files are created within current folder.

I have about 35 gb free on my Windows 10 partition. I have a rar file that will extract to about 25 gb. When I try to extract it using Winrar, it ends up taking up all space on my hard drive despite there being enough space. Attempting to find out where the space is going fails. As far as I know there is no temp file being created since I am extracting directly to the extraction location.There is a large dissonance between the sum of the folders in the drive and the used up space. How do I fix this?

I fixed this problem by setting the Path of the temporary files to the Desktop. WinRAR created a temp folder in the Desktop called "Rar$DRa1488.27961", but it didn't put any temp files inside it. Everything works normally now. So somehow it fixed itself? Putting this answer here so that I see it when I forget this in a week or two.

How exactly are you extracting the files? Are you using the command-line or the GUI? Are you dragging the files or selecting them and using the extract function? Are you using the shell-extension context-menu?

If you enter a destination folder and then select the extract function or use the shell-extension, then they do not extract to a temporary folder first, they extract directly to the destination.

If they didn't use the filesystem, decompression would happen in memory. Under low memory conditions, or for large compressed files this would sooner or later exhaust available memory and start the process of memory paging.

Paging under these circumstances would be a lot slower than just using the filesystem because the file is still being decompressed (and page files keep being added), but also because as the file is being decompressed, it is being checked for errors and there's as such a lot of read/write operations. The worst thing that can happen to a page file.

EDIT:Regarding the use of a temporary directory, this is so to follow many operating system guidelines. If the decompression fails, there's no guarantee the program performing the operation cleans up after itself. It may have crashed for instance. As such, no residual file remains in your target directory and the operating system will dispose of the temporary file when it sees appropriate.

Now, you might know that your filesystem might have enough space, however the application does not. What if that filesystem is in use by the OS or another application and gets filled up while decompressing?

Not being a 7-zip or WinRAR developer, my comments here are purely speculation. That being said, using temp space to unpack to until everything is complete help to verify that all of the files are intact (i.e. that the zip is not corrupted).

There is nothing worse than unpacking a large compressed file, having started working on files at the beginning of the archive; only to find out that something is corrupted at the end of the archive. At that point you lose confidence in everything.

My last comment is that I don't recall seeing this behavior from 7-zip. When I right click and say extract here, I generally have access to the files as they are being unpacked. Have you double checked that it isn't a setting somewhere?

Once you have made the changes, reboot the computer and then try extracting the file with error and check if the error is resolved. When selecting a new directory, make sure the disk has enough space to extract the large file without the error.

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The WinRAR error dealing with not enough memory usually occurs due to temporary issues with RAM. This can obviously affect the way you use your system altogether and even stop you from efficiently finishing any work-related tasks.

You can fix this annoying problem simply by using a WinRAR alternative like WinZip. This powerful software not only enables you to avoid any high consumption of RAM while using it but also offers a set of incredible options and features.

Trying to install 2018 now, but the installer tells me there is not enough disk space to install no matter what location I choose. I have 200GB free on my C drive and 1TB free on my D:\, but I get the same message on both. Anyone seen this issue before?

Does it give the same error if you select C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Desktop and attempt to install it there, does the same error occur?

If so, I suspect it may be a permissions issue throwing up the wrong error, as both you and the dxdiag have confirmed plenty of free space on all drives. In that case, contact te...@vectorworks.net and they will likely check your folder permissions to see if the installer is being stopped somewhere along the way.

A few quick things to try in the meantime as well:

Disable ANY active malware of antivirus application, as they can sometimes cause things like this.

Throw away the installer you have currently, empty the recycle bin, and then download it again. Its pretty unlikely the installer was corrupt and still managed to get this far, but its a possibility.

Hi @bcarrigg90 and @AJ Roslevich, I provide Tech Support for Vectorworks users in New Zealand. Currently I have a Windows 10 user experiencing this issue with Vectorworks 2018 which is highly unusual. We need to know what resolved this matter for you. Can you please tell us what worked for you?

@MMajor124 and @Jim Wilson, based on this discussion I suspect this the storage type of the disk/partition might be a factor. See basic vs dynamic storage types. To determine a disk type, open 'Disk Management' and look at the 'Type' column for the applicable volume. I expect the solution will be to format the volume/partition back to the 'basic' type.

Tech Support in the USA has advised this has been fixed by one of a few different things for different users. They have also confirmed that Vectorworks installers should be compatible with 'dynamic' volumes/partitions, so ignore my prior comment.

So far this has only occurred on computers that have hard drives with multiple partitions/volumes. Do you have multiple partitions/volumes on your hard drive? if you're not sure you can use the Windows utility called 'Disk Management' to determine:

I really appreciate the info but unfortunately, this isn't working for me. I've downloaded multiple times, unzipped with 7zip, Winrar, and Winzip and still I get the warning saying I don't have space. I do indeed have space, 150GB in fact. I have contacted my VW tech support directly and am waiting to hear back. Thanks again for your efforts. I'll post a solution if I find one.

@jakez I was able to get VW2018 installed by following the instructions posted above. In case it's not clear, you have to extract the installer from the zip folder you downloaded, then find the file named "Vectorworks 20XX Installer" and extract that, as well. There are two levels of extraction.

@AJ Roslevich Yes I think I followed those instructions to a tee; still no dice. The one piece that was missing for me was finding the old version of the installer. It is located within the unpacked folder/resources/installer folders. VW tech support helped me with and had it going tickity-boo in no time.

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