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I have had some issues come up with iTunes and was getting warnings that my disk was getting full. With only 900+ songs, I knew that could not be true. If I click on my home folder in the finder window, I had zero kb space left. I did some cleaning and am back to 1.9 gigs available. However I have 53 gigs available on my HD. What should I look for to help clean up some of this? I do not see any duplicate files other than the ones I deleted from the music folder and iTunes. I am not putting any Backup files on my HD either.

RTFM It explains WhatSize groups like sizes in color groups. Those folders don't account for the descprepency. It seems more like some corruption in your home folder.
Log back into your problem account and navigate to ~(yourHome)/Library/Preferences and trash these two files:
com.apple.finder.plist
com.apple.sidebarlists.plist
Then log out and back in again. Or restart.
(You will have to reset a few finder prefs the way you like them.)
Let us know.
EDIT: Also are you using FileVault on your Home folder?
-mj
[email protected]
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