My hard disk is full. how can i fee up space?

My hard disk is full. I have an external hard drive. Can I move maybe iPhoto or iTunescontect to the external hard drive?

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photoshop element 2.0 - on windows 7. the program ran fine on the old HD, but this error popped up when I re-installed it on the new HD
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I have a Mini and has worked well for the past 12 months, last week i upgraded to the OSX Lion which also went very smoothly. However yesterday i had a message on my screen stating the my startup disk was full and i needed to make space. finding this a little odd as I have a TB external hard drive that everything goes to.
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like a not very bright thing i left the time machine turned off so this isnt an option either??

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Why is my hard disk so full?

My Mac Mini has a 55 gig hard drive and it only has 200MB left! As most sites suggest, I have deleted all caches, removed unused programs, deleted old operating systems, emptied the trash, etc.
Finder is telling me that I am using 9.9 gigs but that the drive is full. Where are the other 45 gigs?
Here is what my finder is telling me about the main HDD:
There is nothing more that I can or want to delete in the "Users" section. 4 gb doesn't seem like much, anyway.
Why is my drive so full?
How can I free up space?

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After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 6 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 6 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
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