Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Unraid

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Help needed with not enough space error when copying files over SMB

Featured Replies

Hi i am new to unraid and require support with solving following error when i am copying my music from my synology to unraid server over smb:

Screenshot 2025-12-08 110256.png

There is sufficient free space on the pool and array devices:

Screenshot 2025-12-08 111105.png

The share is using the cache (a 1TB NVME drive) as primary storage and the 4TB HDD disk in the array as secondary storage:

Screenshot 2025-12-08 110958.png

image.png

anyone knows what the problem might be?

I was able to copy all my photos without any issues (though it was very slow with an average transfer speed of about 5MB/s).

Solved by Frank1940

  • Community Expert

Can you create a new file on that share from Windows? Also, please post the diagnostics.

  • Community Expert

Also make sure that you have set up the Minimum Free Space setting on the Cache Drive itself. See Below:

image.png

EDIT: IF the free space setting is correct for the Share, then your setting should be 100GB for the Cache drive....

Edited by Frank1940

  • Author
8 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Can you create a new file on that share from Windows? Also, please post the diagnostics.

Yes i can create new files. Please find the diagnostics attached.

ey-nas-server-diagnostics-20251208-2016.zip

i also just noticed that it has also issues with certain other files that i try to copy.

If i select skip, the copying continues but then now and then runs into a file throwing following error:

image.png

  • Author
6 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

Also make sure that you have set up the Minimum Free Space setting on the Cache Drive itself. See Below:

image.png

EDIT: IF the free space setting is correct for the Share, then your setting should be 100GB for the Cache drive....

Thanks for pointing this out, i indeed had not set a minimum space for the cache, i did now but unfortunately it makes no difference w.r.t. the error i get.

image.png

Edited by rernst

  • Community Expert

I don't see anything logged on the Unraid side, suggesting it's an external issue. Can you copy files from the Windows PC?

  • Community Expert
  • Solution

Try Googling Error 0x80070299 and trying those solutions. Do do some research as it appears that this is one of Windows errors codes that are a catch-all for a number of issues. These are not files with DRM (digital rights management) permissions on them?????

In that google result was this one:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/125003-cause-of-file-transfer-failures-due-to-file-system-limitation/

You might want to try to copy the troublesome files to a flash drive formatted with exFAT. IF that works then copy the files from the flash drive to Unraid...

  • Community Expert

Let me also say that you may have to dive down in the 'Properties' on these files on your Windows computer. You would be working under the 'Security' tab and looking at the 'Advance' permissions and see if there is something unusual about those files. (If I remember correctly, I seem to remember that I once saw a file where I could write to that file but could not delete it. In other words, I could delete the entire contents but not remove it from the file system!!!)

Let me say, I am not a Windows permission Guru. I know just enough to make me really, really dangerous!

  • Author

Hi all,

i tried your suggestions today, and found that first copying my files to an exFAT formatted drive and then from this drive to Unraid solved indeed my problem.

I double checked if any of the fiels had a certain protection, but i couldn't find anything out of the ordinary under properties > security.

My problem is exactly as described in the topic Frank1940 linked to; i still not understand the cause of the problem, but I'm glad that the suggested workaround worked!

Thanks all for your time and support!

Edited by rernst

To add to this - @Frank1940 was also correct. When I encountered this. Some files would be OK, the ones that failed has Microsoft Rights Management added via AIP at source without me knowing.

Once removed the issue was solved

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.