MacOS Sierra of misreporting of space available?

After the upgrade to Sierra I noticed that the free space on my hard drive went to 63GB, according to Finder. However, when I try to copy a file 43 GB hard disk, I get the error message that there is not enough space. I tried to restart, but to no avail.

If I go to 'about this Mac', I see that I have 25 GB of free space and 38 GB of data "purgeable". (Which adds up to the 63 GB of free space that pays Finder).

I waited for purgeable data would be purged if I need space, but that didn't happen.

Everyone knows this?

(PS. I do not use iCloud for storage, in the case where what matters)

Under on this Mac/storage/management, you have a few options to manage disk space. You can try to see if managing these aspects addressed the problem, you can also empty the trash and see if it is included in the total. But even with 63 GB of data and the need to copy a file 43 GB leaves your system with about 20 GB, which is not much for the system to work out of. Consider the external storage and free up your system drive.

FWIW Mine shows correctly on both ends.

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