Finder shows more space available than Disk utility

I am clearing out space on my main hard drive. The Finder shows that I have 265 Gbytes available (out of 750), but disk first aid shows that I have only 90 Gbytes.
Disk Utility shows no problem.

Morning Bodance,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
There could be several reasons why this could occur.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
iOS: 'Not enough free space' alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1503
Best of luck,
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