My Macbook Air storage is messed up.

I wanted to download the new Itunes to my computer. I didn't have enough storage to, and I noticed that movies were taking up 25 GBS on my computer. I put all of the movies on an external drive and deleted them off my macbook air. I checked my stoage, and it said that I still had 22.53 GBs of movies, even though I deleted all of my movies! I don't know how to fix this.
Any help is appreciated
Also, what is the normal amount of time it takes to update itunes?

First verify that the movies really are not on your internal hard drive. Depending on how you have iTunes configured it's possible that you removed them from your computer put them on the external drive, told iTunes where to find them on the external drive and then had them copy back to the internal drive, oops.
If the movies really are not on your computer any longer than you'll need to attempt to repair the drive. How you'll do this depends upon whether you have Mac OS 10.6 or OS 10.7 or greater. If you have 10.6 restart your computer with the system restore disk and from there select utilities, run disk utility and repair the drive. If you have 10.7 or waiter restart the computer holding the option key and select the recovery partition. There you can run disk utility and attempt to repair the drive.

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3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
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Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
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