Hard Drive Space Gone

So I was using Disk Utility to "Erase Free Space" on my hard drive like I have done once before. I forgot to turn off the Sleep function of the computer before I left the room and when I came back the computer was asleep and Disk Utility had stopped. When I lookes at the free space on my hard drive it had went from about 39GB of free space to 772KB (The **** thing was almost done) I know that the computer just writes Zeros over all of the free space and the computer is supposed to say that startup disk is almost full, but now that computer thinks that all of the space that the Zeros were written on is actually data that I want to keep on the hard drive. I have tried re-running the Utility and it just Erases the 72 KB of Free Space that it thinks is left.
HELP!!!

Yeah I had that problem for 3 days before I figured it out...
Use WhatSize and meaure your hardrive.
You'll find that there's a file in your trash bin, or in "Caches". whatever file its in, it'll be a huge file, 30+GB...
Delete that, (or if its in your trash, empty it) and you should be fine.

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