I have 150 gb of free space on HD, yet says no space available. Help?

I was downloading music recently and triedto import it into ITunes when a message popped up stating something like, "will copy as much as possible. No more space on ------ HD available".
At the same time, Dropbox was not letting me upload music to it even though I had over 50% of space available.
And when I tried to unzip a file, it was cancelled due to "no more space for extraction".
This is all happening even though I have 151 GB of free space!
I am not sure why this is happening and would appreciate any input.
Thanks
-Dan

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