Disappearing hard drive space in leopard.

I really hope somebody out there can help out. Before upgrading to leopard from tiger, I had approximately 8GB left of space on my hard drive. After upgrading I was left with about 500MB. However I have since started to notice some problems. Even when I am not downloading anything I will check through finder that I have 300MB of space left and then maybe two hours later it has dropped to 100MB and it will go back up again. I can't understand as to why I am losing space. In the last hour, I went from 100MB left to zero after trying to print a .tiff file through preview.
I hope somebody can help me free up some space somewhere or work out as to where my space is going(I have been securely emptying trash now). I never had this problem with tiger.

The installation of Leopard requires a few more GB of space than Tiger.
Your issue is that you've only got a few hundred **MB** of free space on your drive. This is bad juju and you will most certainly have a slow system and have other issues as well.
Time for some house cleaning. You should have at least a few GB of free space on your drive at all times.
Using the "Secure Empty Trash" isn't going to do anything to free up more space. The purpose of that function is to overwrite the files you're deleting several time so they cannot ever be recovered. Just doing a simple "Empty Trash" will suffice, unless you need the secure empty function. Also, it's going to take MUCH longer depending on the size and number of files you're trashing.

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