Can't update osx because disk full

I have a MacBook Air with 120 GB hard drive.  Have been getting message "Can't update (OSX) because startup disk full."  Says I need to free up some disk space.  Other messages just say the hard drive is too full.  When I go to Finder the "get info" option for the hard drive says I only have about 365 MB left on disk.  Hard to believe since I have very little data on computer.  No music, no videos, less than 100 pictures.  Only thing of any size is Parallels desktop and Windows 7.  I was stopped from using Windows because of the full disk.
When I check each secxtion in Finder>Favorites they only add up to less than 70 GB (still hard to believe that much is on my disk).
How do I search this out?  Where did the other 50 GB (120 GB that "get info" for hard drive says is used less 70 GB sum of folders)?  Is there a utility to show all folders or files in order of size, high to low?
BTW, my home iMac with thousands of pictures, 300+ cd's in lossless compression and many more downloads, files and programs loaded doesn't use as much disk space as this Air.

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