HD is full and MacPro is acting funky

i am on hold with mac advanced tech and have a bit of an emergency as i try and get out of town.
i just did a fresh install of my OS and manually migrated data back to my 1 TB HD and /had/ planned on dealing with archiving data (including a 25 GB aperture library) off my HD when i get back into town.
the issue i am running into is the HD is just about plumb full up and FINDER is acting very funky. when i go into folders that should have data in them i don't see any data in them and this is making it very hard to navigate. is this normal in this situation?
does anyone know how to proceed from here? i tried deleting nine items and this action is hung.
force shutdown and restart...?

hi. this was for the mac pro. sorry if i mentioned MBP.
seems like the issue was that finder got hung up deleting seven files and until i force quit out of finder it would not show data in other folders in other finder windows.
very bizarre and sort of dangerous IMHO.
acting better now thanks.

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