Files double or tripple in size after renaming them

For months now, I have noticed that when I rename a PDF, it can double or triple in size (e.g, from 5mb to 15mb or from 12mb to 29mb). Surely changing a few characters isn't adding that much space to the file.
I am also having other difficulties related to Finder or Preview: Finder tags disappear while typing them in (in Preview).
I hope to try a reinstall after the semester ends to fix this, but I thought I would ask around in case I am just mistaken about this file-size-changing-thing. That shouldn't be happening right?
Late 2013 Macbook Air
OSX 10.9.2

iMovie is a non-destructive editor, meaning that all original clips are maintained in the folder, even after editing. Until you render the movie to DVD, all the original files are still "in the background". Kind of hard for me to explain. Others here could give more technical details. You would have to delete your movie from the folder to regain all the hard drive space.
If your idea is to archive your movies, a better method is to record them back to tape. Otherwise, get an external drive to store the finished movies and then delete the original files.
One word of caution about emptying the iMovie trash. This has been known to cause problems with a work in progress and it is generally advised to leave the iMovie trash alone until your project is finished and burned to a DVD.

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I don't even know where to start. I guess first I'll list some background information:
My wife and I share a iMac which she uses it as her workstation for illustration and I use it as Plex Media Server and Transmission etc. So she would normally use it by day, but my account would be always logged in in the background and I use SSH and Remote Desktop to control my account.
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1) iMac 27" late 2012 with 128 GB Apple SSD and 3TB HDD
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3) The configuration is odd because I wanted to use both fusion drive and BOOTCAMP. So there is a BOOTCAMP volume as well.
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Then at one night, she accidentally unplug the iMac while it's on (it's always on, and my wife never reboot or shut it down unless I intervene). No she freaked out as she couldn't remember if she saved her illustration work. Luckily she did. And at this point of time, after booting it up, the PSD file was intact and the latest version. Okay, we moved on. I didn't worry about too much about the power failure because this happened before. And normally Disk Utility in Recovery HD would fix the problem.
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Now I'm trying to recovery all the PSD files on the disk with a Data Recovery App. But while I'm waiting I found some other files now its zero bytes. This really worries me. And I'm still not sure what cause the problem or even what the problem was or is. I suspect it has something to do with fusion drive as when I do rsync -W --inplace, the speed is normally 20~30 which is a bit low to me.
If you read this far, I really appreciate it. I'm sorry it's so long and unclear. It's because its like nothing I encountered before and the problem is hidden with many little issues on the surface.
But I will try to summarise my question:
1) What could possibly be the root cause of those problems
2) What happened to those files.
3) Is there anyway to recovery them other than standing all the sectors of the disk
4) Would it be better off with fusion drive.

I don't even know where to start. I guess first I'll list some background information:
My wife and I share a iMac which she uses it as her workstation for illustration and I use it as Plex Media Server and Transmission etc. So she would normally use it by day, but my account would be always logged in in the background and I use SSH and Remote Desktop to control my account.
And since the ultimate symptom are I don't how many zero byte files, here are some configuration information.
1) iMac 27" late 2012 with 128 GB Apple SSD and 3TB HDD
2) A custom fusion drive with 1 logical volume consist of 3 physical volumes.
3) The configuration is odd because I wanted to use both fusion drive and BOOTCAMP. So there is a BOOTCAMP volume as well.
This happened in the past couple of days. At first my wife was complaining about loosing wifi connection and keyboard connectivity problems. For wifi I typically instructed her to turn wifi on and off or try to reboot the computer. For the keyboard problem, it turned out to be a software problem not Bluetooth because disabling a third part IME seemed to resolve the problem.
Then at one night, she accidentally unplug the iMac while it's on (it's always on, and my wife never reboot or shut it down unless I intervene). No she freaked out as she couldn't remember if she saved her illustration work. Luckily she did. And at this point of time, after booting it up, the PSD file was intact and the latest version. Okay, we moved on. I didn't worry about too much about the power failure because this happened before. And normally Disk Utility in Recovery HD would fix the problem.
Then on the day after, it started loosing sound. So I tried to fix it. Now when I tried to login, it said "Cannot find "login" keychains". Choose "Restore to Default", doesn't work and Finder was keeping crashing and relaunching. Hopping a restart would fixed but it didn't. Then I tried all regular maintaining techniques include fix disk, fix permission, clear all sorts of caches with OnyX. Because there was a power failure, the disk did need some repairing and according to Disk Utility, it appeared OK now, but the problem was still there.
Then I created a new user, works seemingly fine. Deleted my old account and created it agin with the same UID, same problem. Almost all the applications failed to launch except "Notes" and "Maps". It seemed to be a user problem but using the same user ID but new Home folder, the problem came back. This baffled me. I never came across something like this.
Then I hoped upgrade system to 10.10.3 would help (it was 10.10.2). And it did. Now finder can open. Keychains still missing and could be reset to default. But at least I could open Keychains Access now. And from there I created a new login keychain. And my wife's account didn't have this keychain issue, I assumed the situation was under control.
Now, the wired thing happened. My wife fired up Photoshop, it's reporting problems loading preferences. Moved preferences file else where, it said unexpected EOF. Looked it up and ended LAYOUT.psp or something became zero bytes. I deleted it and let photoshop create default one. Now photoshop works. But the PSD my wife panicked about earlier became zero byte.
Verified the disk again, appears to be OK, again, appears to be OK.
The only thing worth mentioning was the amount of something called "Metadata Volume" and "double redundancy". It says "The Logical Volume Family has a 4482 MB Metadata Volume double redundancy". I'm not sure whether or not this is usual.
Now I'm trying to recovery all the PSD files on the disk with a Data Recovery App. But while I'm waiting I found some other files now its zero bytes. This really worries me. And I'm still not sure what cause the problem or even what the problem was or is. I suspect it has something to do with fusion drive as when I do rsync -W --inplace, the speed is normally 20~30 which is a bit low to me.
If you read this far, I really appreciate it. I'm sorry it's so long and unclear. It's because its like nothing I encountered before and the problem is hidden with many little issues on the surface.
But I will try to summarise my question:
1) What could possibly be the root cause of those problems
2) What happened to those files.
3) Is there anyway to recovery them other than standing all the sectors of the disk
4) Would it be better off with fusion drive.

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