For staff to get email they have to use a web based outlook (because we use Exchange and haven't discovered software to use on Mac which will run happily with Exchange 2003), therefore to be able to read attachments on emails they have to download them (because Safari is rubbish IMO).

At the moment it is set to download to the users downloads folder in the home area on our Xserve which has terabytes of free space. We also don't set disc quotas on the home areas yet.

However, today when a member of staff tried to retrieve her attachments (which was a 60KB file in word) Safari brought up an error saying it can't download due to the lack of free space.

Obviously 1.7TB isn't enough for a 60KB Word file!

I've checked all permissions and they all look fine.

Has anyone experienced this before and know how to fix it?
It's only started today and has me puzzled.