Finder reports wrong amount of free space

Finder is reporting the wrong amount of free space on all my drives. It's not from time machine local backups, because I've disabled those. In fact, it's reporting MORE free space than there should be! In all cases, Disk Utility shows the correct amount. (So does the Terminal command df.)
eg:
external 120GB hard drive (USB) - finder says 137.83GB free (more than the drive can hold, nice) - disk util says 70 used 49.9 free... better
external 1TB (firewire) - finder says 276.66GB free - disk util says 783.72 used 216.15 free
internal 120GB SSD - finder says 108.32GB - disk util says 78.6GB used, 40.5 free
Anyway to fix Finder?

I noticed the same problem. I assumed it was from Time Machine's local backups (which exactly account for the space discrepancy between Finder and Disk Utility on my machine). But, as you say, you've disabled Time Machine local "snapshots." I can only assume you deleted the local backups (to free up the space they were using), emptied your Trash and are still showing the discrepancy.

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