72GB of free space missing...again.

Ok, so I have been having this issue intermittently since iOS 7.0. I am now on 8.3 (just upgraded to it this morning) but the problem is still here.
Basically, after a weekend of streaming a LOT of purchased videos to my iPad (not downloading them, mind you, but "streaming" from the cloud), my 128GB iPad will suddenly decide that it has no more free space. In Settings>General>Usage, it will show less than a gigabyte of free space; in fact this morning when I tried to update to 8.3 it told me there was not enough free space to even download the update.
I know for a FACT that I am only actually using about 30% or so of the device's capacity. I can go through the usage section and add everything up manually, or better yet, just plug it in to iTunes. iTunes will tell me that the iPad has 73GB of free space available!
Why the discrepancy? I've managed to fix this before (I do NOT want to factory restore, and quite frankly I shouldn't have to), but I can't remember how I did it. It seems to me that there is some sort of download cache that the iPad uses when I stream my purchased videos, then it forgets that it downloaded those and so it doesn't clean up after itself...
Any help here would be great...this is probably the 5th time I've had this happen after streaming a lot of my purchased videos, and streaming purchased videos is the only thing that seems to actually cause this storage capacity black hole.

Ok, after messing around a bit more it would appear that I've fixed the issue.
Heres how:
In Settings>iTunes & App Store: Turn OFF Show All Music and Videos as well as iTunes Match.
Open the Videos app, hit edit, and delete anything that is showing up in there (even though there shouldn't be anything in there now since none of them have ever been downloaded by me).
Go back to Settings>iTunes & App Store, turn Show All Music and Videos and iTunes Match back ON.

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<EventID Qualifiers="49156">150</EventID>
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Interesting Thread, I've been having the same issue. I had a failed hardware RAID that was impossible to recover in place, so after being forced to do a 1:1 backup, I find myself with 5 2TB hard drives to play with. Storage Spaces seemed like an interesting
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