Help - iMac Storage/New user account question

Ok - so I've assumed that my user account was corrupt as Ive been having problems with Safari crashing/freezing the whole of my Mac, but thats another storey.
So i decided to create a new user account to delete the old one. I copied the following folders from my original user account into the shared folder first of all:
Pictures
Music
Movies
Documents
I've now deleted the old account and copied these folders from Shared into my new user account - actually Ive just left Music, Pictures & Movies in shared and am going to point the relevant apps such as iTunes to the shared folder.
The problem I have, is that I've lost over 100gb of storage somewhere on the Mac and I can't see where!
As far as I can see, I've deleted everything so that there is only one copy now and have emptied the Trash folder.
Anybody got any suggestions - perhaps a hidden folder somewhere?
Thanks

>>... I can't seem to see it anywhere anyway...
It would be a folder or disk image (.dmg) in /Users, along with your current account home.
>>I might try and get rid of the Events folder - not sure if I need that or not?
iMovie (2013): Updating projects and events from previous versions of iMovie
and especially
iMovie (2013): Removing old libraries after updating
say that you probably don't...
'You can delete these folders if you no longer want to work with them in the previous version of iMovie.
Before removing your projects and events, make sure they have been updated for iMovie version 10.'

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