Free space on my sad hard drive

Hello from Brussels Belgium,
I have a 27" iMac with i7, a 2T hard disk and a 258 ssd.
My ssd now only has 3,2GB / 258GB available and I still have plenty of space on my 2T hard drive.
Here is a print screen of my SSD:
How can I select the files to transfer and is there a tool that optimizes the action to take?
Thanks in advance,
Sami

Look in your documents folder and that is likely where your large files are. Also if you store your iPhotos, iTunes, iMovie libraries on your SSD you can move those to the 2TB internal drive too. Apple explains how to move those in
iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder
iPhoto: How to move the Library folder to a new location

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Have you emptied the Trash on those drives?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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Last edited by =OTS=G-Man (2009-12-10 06:02:03)

ill try the fsck right now
heres the output you requested
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/dev/sda3 is showing its old values almost like something in the partition tables didn't get updated?
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