You deleted everything from your USB key or a drive, so there should be enough free space to copy the new files, but you still get the not enough free space message in Mac OS X? This is what you need to do.
If you know how many years or months you got left until the retirement or any other event or project in your life, Excel can return you the exact date and the number of days left to reach it.
Remember the legendary Predator movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Those Predator aliens had this thermal view feature so they could their prey even in complete darkness, let's Photoshop it.
If you need, besides major accounts, an extra account with limited access to data, you can add Windows 8 Guest account. The process is almost the same as in Windows 7.
If you experience an Mac OS X program to freeze and you cannot exit it by clicking quit or using a keyboard shortcut, you can always force it to quit using the Activity Monitor.