Help with my Internal Hard Drive!!! New to Mac

Hello! I've only had my iMac for a few months now after switching from PC. I have a 1TB hard drive, which is plenty for my files and photos.
It says that I only have 244 GB left on my internal. I don't know how this could be. I checked in all the folders that I have, music, pictures, documents, desktop, etc, all the file sizes add up to about 350 GB. What else is being stored in there? I tried to download Adobe Acrobat and it told me I didn't have enough space. What? how can this be?
Do all my software and applications get stored on there too? I run Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom. I'm sorry if this is a stupid and obvious question. I'm not very mac literate yet.
Thanks

Yes, your entire system including applications is on that drive.
To see where all the space is going, try Omnidisksweeper (free) http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/
If there's excessive space being used by cache files or other background processes, come back to the forum and and someone will point you to a solution.
Even if there is "only" 244GB available Acrobat should not be complaining. (But then, it is Adobe) I'd ask Adobe themselves about that one.

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