ITunes library consolidation problem

Hi,
I'm stuck on this one.  I used to have a large iTunes library that I stored on a pocket drive external to my laptop.  I've recently cut it down from 150Gb to about 113Gb, which I figure I can copy back on to my laptop (130Gb free space).  However iTunes is insisting that there isn't enough space on my drive, even though there should be a spare 17Gb.  Are there any settings that might be making iTunes think the library is bigger than it is?
Thanks,
Sam

It turns out my hard drive has some corruption errors and needs repairing.  The finder > info on the drive was registering a different size to that calculated by a finder window and Disk Utility.
Off for a restart and repair (touch wood).
Sam

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