HD Space Savings with Snow Leopard?  What Savings?

After installing Snow Leopard over the latest Leopard my available disk space has DECREASED by over 70 Gb! This is completely contrary to everything i have read. I cannot find where this space went. I used the same install options as before. Anyone else have this occur?

That is not a normal experience with Snow Leopard, but I have heard of it happening before when people upgraded to Leopard. Sometimes it had something to do with a MobileMe iDisk gone wild.
You can download a product such as "OmniDiskSweeper" for free that will show you exactly where your disk space has gone.

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