Disk space reported differently around OS X

Hello - I've got a 2012 MacBook Air with a 256GB SSD running OS X Mavericks 10.9.5.
When I view info about the hard disk, it shows as having 93GB free - however, when I view System Information, it says 48GB free.
45GB seems to have gone missing somewhere!
I've attached a screenshot showing both numbers.
I have done a repair permissions and repair disk using Disk Utility but no change.
Any ideas?
Thanks
James

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Last edited by zcal (2012-10-21 16:02:21)

Here you can see the difference is around 7 percent in the scale of gigabytes.
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