Hard drive space disappeared after starting to us iDisk

Before I started using iDisk I had about 80 G of hard drive space. Now I have 7 G!
I have followed other threads and I have checked the Volumes folder and find my home folder there, the iDisk and my external drive.
If I try to delete any of them I get a message that says I don't have the permissions.
I have decided to trash iDisk. How do I get rid of it and get my drive sapce back?
Help!
Deanna

the default on my iMac was to auto-back the Macintosh HD to iDisk daily. Well, the HD had about 57 Gb of stuff on it, and the iDisk allows a max of 1 Gb, and even if you pay more, you can only get up to 4 Gb. So, the program copied to the iDisk icon on my desktop. Lost 57 Gb of space ovennight. Finally found out that its a good thing to back up (to your online iDisk acct) a few things that you want to keep. I had a tech walk me through. First, if everything is still as it was on your HD, delete the copied HD from the iDisk desktop icon. Then, you can either DL huge files (like your whole HD to some disks, or in my case, I had a freestanding 100 Gb harddrive, so I used it for the target, and backed up EVERYTHING. Now when I perform a backup, it doesn't add much-just whats new or changed.

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