Cannot consolidate iTunes library--"not enough room"

Hello,
I'm totally frustrated here. Just purchased a 3T Western Digital NAS drive to keep my family's media libraries. There are three of us each with our own iPhone, laptop, & iTunes library (although we do share an Apple ID). I set up a share on the NAS for each of us, then mapped it on each computer as a network drive. Then I changed the iTunes Media folder location in the advanced preferences to point a new folder on the mapped drive. Next step was to consolidate each library to force iTunes to copy/move the library to the new location. This worked perfectly for the first two libraries and each one is able to sync it's respective iPhone with no problems. My problem occurred when trying to consolidate the third library, received an iTunes error that stated "There is not enough room on <share> to copy all of the requested files." This is not true, I show that there is still a little more than 2T of free space still available on the NAS drive, and I am able to copy files there outside of iTunes without difficulty. I read elsewhere that I could consolidate the library in smaller chunks by selecting items in iTunes, right-clicking, and choosing consolidate files. This worked for about 1/3 of the music, and then I ran into the 'not enough room' error again. Here is the pertinent information for the troublesome library:
Operating System - Windows 7 Ultimate, SP1
iTunes version - 10.4.1.10
NAS Drive - 2.00 TB free of 2.71 TB
iTunes Library - 345 GB (10,129 files)
If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this, your help would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Debbi

To get an idea of what is being stored where download & run the script iTunesInfo which should output something like this:
I'm interested in the block of 4 results starting ITL location. If your profile name shows up somewhere replace it with <Name>. It is also worth checking under Edit > Preferences > Advanced to see where iTunes thinks your media is supposed to go. My script estimates the setting based on the location of the first media file it can actually find.
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