Help - my hard drive is lying to me???

Today my computer was working fine except my iphoto seemed to have dissappeared, so I made a mistake I think and added library from an external hard drive and I think it copied the files onto my main hard drive? But the weird thing is that the pictures are nowhere to be found, but the space is gone? Meaning, my main internal hard drive says it is at capacity at 74 Gigs and when I get info on all folders inside it only adds up to 45 Gigs? Where is the missing Gigs?

Hi, SkyMc -
Welcome to Apple's Discussions.
Odd things start happening when a drive gets too full.
This article addresses some issues which can result in disappearing disk space -
MacFixIt - Missing Drive Space

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