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insufficient resources when trying to move a file

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by satansportion

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I am trying to move a file in SBS 2003 but when I try it comes up with the "insufficient resources..." error.

does anyone know any reason why this is appearing? There is over 50GB left on the drive it needs to go to and 7GB left on the drive it is coming from. the file itself is only 2.4GB. All the latest updates are installed as is the latest SP.

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by older mycroft

If it is LESS than 2.4GB then you have insufficient resources to copy a single 2.4GB file. :)

Check the level of fragmentation on the destination drive, defragmenting as required.

by tmalo627

Are there any in place on the destination disk? That could possibly be the problem.

by nimmo

In the event log is there any other infomation, this error is pretty open to inturpretation it could be to do with memory and or hard drive.

I have seen a similar error which did turn out to be memory which was a result of a memory leak in the antivirus software installed.

Take a look in the task manager and see if memory is getting eaten up by anything.

by satansportion

I found the reason why this error keeps appearing. there was an issue with the servers DNS records and this was causing a massive backlog of error logs which was eating up the hdd space on the C drive so it was shutting the computer processes down when it reached below 200MB. so we sorted the DNS records out which stopped the errors which stopped the massive log files which freed up the space which got the server working again!! Phew!

Thanks for all the responses.

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