External Drive Space

Ok....This might sound dumb, but I am relatively new to Mac OS.  I have a 2 TB external drive attached to my Mac used mainly to store music, pictures and a few documents.  The other day I wanted to save some more music to the drive and a message came up that there was not enough space.  I checked out the folders on the drive and when added up the files take up a little less than 1 tb.  According to hard drive info I only have 704 mb of available space.  Are there hidden folders/files that I may be unaware of on the external drive?  Anyone out there with an answer or suggestion as to what I am missing?
Thanks
Fred

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