Hard Disc suddenly full

Hi All
I have a problem which seems quite popular on these forums but I've not quite found the answer yet on my search. Yesterday I had lots of free space on my (300GB) drive and today it says I have just 651.6MB available. This follows me being "clever" and ensuring that we (the wife and I) both had access to my itunes folder by copying it (and deleting the original) and placing it on the shared folder. Both our itunes accounts are now linked to this shared file and I suspect this is where the issue is.
I have run OmniDiskSweeper and it says I have used up 135.1GB of space taken up where in Finder it says I am using 249.72GB.
Any ideas what's happening here and how I can resolve this?
Thanks
DB

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