Deleting Movies off my Hard Drive...

I downloaded a couple of movies from iTunes a while ago, now I'm running out of space on my hard drive I want to delete them completely. The only problem is when I go to delete the actual file it gives me a message saying:
"Cannot delete [movie]: Access is denied.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use."
Any suggestions for how I can solve this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Message was edited by: Magic_Mayhem09

If you have some large files that you know are duplicated on your backup drive, drag one to the Trash. Empty it and try to operate the OS to see whether fit responds properly to commands. Do that repeatedly until to does. Then start tp trash your movie files.
My 2¢ worth…delete render files. I  bet you free up a lot of space,
Russ

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