I-tunes says my downloads have been paused because the hard drive is full

My Music is on a 250 gb lacie Hard drive. Everything was fine until yesterday, now when I am downloading new podcast I get the message saying I-tunes has paused the downloads because the destination drive is full.
I have 145 GB's free on my external drive.
The library has been on this drive for about 6 months now and has always worked fine. Even if I tunes was looking at my internal hard drive there is 35 GB's free on that drive.
Any ideas
Thanks
Joe

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