298GB HD suddenly says it is only 1GB

I have a 297.77GB hard drive which, one day after trying to download A SMALL PICTURE, a message came up saying "Safari could not download the file ... because there is not enough free disk space. Try deleting documents or downloading to another disk." and it says that for anything that I try to download now.
and here's hard drive information:
Capacity: 297.77 GB
Available: 254.9 GB
Used: 42.88 GB on disk
and, yet, whenever I click on the Apple logo in the top right of the computer, and go to "About This Mac." it says:
Memory: 1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
...1GB?
can anyone please help me fix this problem? I am unable to download anything, yet I am supposed to have 254 GB left
thank you!

open_eyes wrote:
How would I change that?
In Safari, click on Safari in the Title Bar (top of page) and then Preferences . Next hit the General tab at the top of the Preferences window and about 60% down the page it says "Save downloaded file to:" and then it names a location with Downloads as the default. This can be changed and I would suggest Desktop until you get this sorted out. -GDF

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