Not enough free space to import (even though there is plenty)

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Not enough free space (6385799168) to import: (file name) [size]

Seeing some bizarre activity on my system. Long story short, had a few files download and the download was successful, but when it came time to move the files, the above error occurred. My system is running on Linux and I have some mounted drives with several GB and TB of free space. There were about 6, 7+ GB files, they downloaded to a 300GB local drive. From there, they move to a mounted partition with 7TB free, so in all, there is plenty of free space.

When I go to the System tab, I see the potential issue:
/ (/) 5.9 GB 16.6 GB
/mnt/downloads (/mnt/downloads) 245.0 GB 363.1 GB

downloads is where it is downloaded and from there, it moves to another /mnt/(fileserver)

It seems the system is not detecting the right mount point, so it has no clue about free space. When I changed the setting to tell it to skip the free space check, it works fine. So while it is a workaround, it would be good to know why it is not detecting the correct paths in order to detect the correct disk space.

Hope that makes sense.

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Is your mounted partition on the network? Drone has issues getting the available free space under some circumstances, that is one of them, its a known is already (hence the workaround): https://trello.com/c/nrLS6gqn/444-free-space-on-ubuntu-doesn-t-include-mounted-shares

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yes, it is a network mount. Glad to hear it is known. For now I will just disable the space checking as it works. Thanks