Native Access - Why not enough free space?

Hi there,
Native prevented download of Session Strings (29GB). It says: Please free additional 26GB. Because a total of 79GB is required for the download/installation. My mac is pretty loaded but still has 108GB available. Before Session Strings I downloaded Session Horns which has same size and it worked fine (onto my external SSD). Now suddenly there seems to be not enough space! How is that possible?
I thought maybe it's an error by NA so I tried to install/upgrade to Native Access 2. But the installer wanted to install something called NTKDaemon. I stopped the installation and checked it out on the internet. I found some horror story about NTK Daemon that it creates a huge memory leak and users try to get rid of it! So I reinstalled Native Access 1. But it still said 26GB are missing for installing Session Strings.
Then I found this on Native-Instruments.com: "Please note that to find out the actual free space available on your system drive, you need to access the application Disk Utility. You find this in: Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility.
This is necessary, because simply right-clicking on the Mac HD in Finder and choosing "Get info" will show the summation of free space and purgeable space.
Native Access calculates the amount of free space an installation requires from the available free space only (excluding the purgeable space). This is why you may see what is presumably enough free space available, although Native Access requests more."
Ok! I checked it out and it's true. According to Disk Utility my free space is not 108GB (like it says in Mac Info) but only 53GB.
I was soooo close finishing all downloads via NA! I put everything that was not required on my external SSD. Even installing session horns worked fine (same size). Everything went on my external SSD so it's impossible that free space on my Macintosh HD became less!
What shall I do now? It's only Session Strings that is missing. And Disk Utility doesn't define exactly what data can be erased to solve the problem.
How is it possible that after installing everything on external SSD (so no space on my Macintosh was used) that suddenly it required 26GB more space on my Macintosh? This doesn't seem to make sense.
Thanks.
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@BigBlue NTKDaemon is needed for Native Access to run smoothly. I'm not sure what horror stories you mean about memory leak, if you have links please share them, as this is news to me.
If you set up the download and install locations to your external hard drive and followed these steps: Native Access Error Message: "Installation has been prevented. You do not have enough free drive space to install the products." and it's still not working for you, then Native Access 2 is the way to go, or contact my colleagues but keep in mind it's the busiest time of the season so their reply times are a bit higher. http://bit.ly/NIsupport_install
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Well, what about all this stuff with NI customers being concerned or at least very annoyed by what it does:
"That's like 26GB of NI used ram there! That was a scary thing to see at the end of the day."
"I was doing some cleanup of startup applications to keep my system optimized and discovered the NTKDaemon.exe process was using up 21 GB of virtual memory and 1.9 GB in the working set!"
or: https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/ntkdaemon.348397/
Strange that you have never read about this issue here... But however I'm really hesitating installing Native Access 2.
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@BigBlue Ok, i see, i might have missed that post. From what I see, it's only 2 users that were affected by this issue in June, no one else reported that issue since. the other post is from 2019. There is a new update of Native Access regularly that comes with updates for the NTKDaemon as well. There were no similar reports to our support agents. If you have more links I could check maybe? If there are more users affected we would definitely to check this out. I'm not saying Native Access doesn't have any issues but this one would be a tiny tiny fraction compared to the number of active Native Access users.
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