Memory gone from main hard drive

I imported a movie I video taped from my camera to my main hard drive and had 9 Gigs left. After I had finished my editing I was exporting it to and external drive and I when it got to about 34 % it said i had no more memory left but before I started exporting I checked the external and had 130 Gigs left so i look at my main drive and it had zero KB left whats going on and how do i get my gigs back ?

Where are the render files going? How big is system drive? Sounds like it's way too full to run properly. Rebooting should clear up some VM, but you'll probably have to dump something.

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