Unknown Space being taken up.

My Macbook Pro has a 250GB Start Up Disk and it has said recently that it is full. I did some digging and apparently my Itunes is taking up 150GB . That is the weird part however. I checked my itunes and at the bottom of the screen on itunes it says that I only have 70GB of items. I don't know what is taking up the rest of the 80GB of my computer.

Yes, as long as you are sure it is a duplicate, get rid of the file iTunes isn't actually using. Highlight a file and use command+R to reveal which file it associates with a track. If there's another on your computer that is identical, get rid of it.
If you have iTunes set to organize your music then anything that is in your library but there is a copy outside your iTunes folder is almost certainly the one not used. However, there is some confusion that arises from the fact that iTunes changed folder organization several years ago and started putting things in separate media folders inside of the iTunes folder instead of just in Music. If you see something like the below it may be tricky to sort them out without a bit of labor.
iTunes' folder structure, March 2010 - http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11260991 - Topic: What/where is my iTunes "Media" folder?

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Yes, if you uncheck all podcasts and sync, all video and audio podcasts should be removed. I'm not sure what else could be using that space. If you go back to iTunes and connect your iPhone, click on the capacity bar and it will toggle from MBs used to minutes of play to number of items. At least you will know how may video items there are. You might have to do a restore to purge whatever this is.

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Ok, so I appreciate the suggestion that it may be a corrupted file. But have you noticed that I am not the only person having this problem? Actually look. It is a valid problem, and I'm not the only one having it. So asking for Apple to fix it really isn't wrong.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=567122
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27483/why-does-my-iphone-use-so-much-ot her-space-after-upgrade-to-ios-5
http://www.ipodrepublic.com/iphone/fixing-issue-other-files-iphone-memory/2010/0 3/31/
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Not certain from your post if you have tried changing the drive letter of your ipod.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1493
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Photecs wrote:
I've got a G4 Tower with the latest 10.5 OS. I have an 80 GB drive, with 19 GB remaining.
Single clicking on Mac HD, then "apple i" shows me this.
Is there any way to find out more specifically where most of the memory is being taken up?
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my problem is that most of my imac hard drive is being taken up by 200gb of "other' memory
i am running time machine does this contribute
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JKOL96 wrote:
i am running time machine does this contributex
Some, possibly, but shouldn't be a problem.
how can i get rid of all "other" memory
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