Thanks for the info. We’ve had some issues with it not figuring out space availability correctly during an update. We are working on a complete overhaul of the whole launcher that will fix these issues. 0.7.7d is gigantic compared to 0.7.8 as far as space on disk goes. It may have been attempting to allocate space for both versions simultaneously. If this happens again before the launcher upgrade, you might need to temporarily free up some space on the drive and then move the stuff back.
In your troubleshooting, did you attempt to download a fresh launcher from our website? You can change the name of the directory of the old one and then install the new one and then before it actually starts downloading, move the game folder into it and trick it in to thinking you’ve got the game downloaded already and it should just pick up as though nothing happened. I know those instructions are a little vague but I get the impression that you know what you’re doing enough that it will make sense. Let me know if you need more details.