What is filling my disk?

Disk usage on my MacBook Pro has grown dramatically recently, and I can not find the files that are responsible.
My disk is 320GB and I am using 240GB but Finder only shows a usage of 29GB. Finders usage is reported as 3.8GB for Apps, 5.6GB for Library, 4.2GB for System and 15.3GB for Users.
Where should I be looking for the missing 200+GB?

OmniDiskSweeper is great, but did not help!
My disk is almost full, as measured by SuperDuper! which fails when it has completely filled my backup disk which is only 120GB. Control click on the disk in Finder and Get Info shows the disk as 319.73GB with 79.01GB free, yet doing Get info on the folders in the system disk only accounts for less than 30GB used.
One other application I like is GrandPerspective, which shows about what I would expect for 30GB usage. The biggest file reported on the disk is private/var/vm/sleepimage at 4GB, followed by the Parallels machine file at 3.2GB. Nothing else comes close - certainly nothing that could explain what is using more than 200GB of the disk.
Disk Utilities verifies the disk as OK.
I'm getting desperate enough to do the Windows thing and reformat/reinstall everything, but I would like to avoid that if possible.
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Op 5-aug.-2013 om 21:06 heeft Pattie F <[email protected]> het volgende geschreven:
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Geert-
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