How do I find out whats eating my space?

Hi
I've just bought a new mac and l love it. The issue is that I uploaded photos (around 90GB's worth) from a USB disk but then the ipad some how managed to upload the same photos therefore duplicating all the photos this doubling the size of the total space taken by photos. So I turned of photostream, deleted all photos of both the mac and ipad and will repeat the process.
However, I notice I still have 126GB of photos on the mac but I can't see where there are not photos in iphoto, none in the iphoto trash or none in the actuall trash can itself. I'm loaved to do a factory restore as its taken me two nights to get to where I am but not sure where this rogue 126GB is - appreciate any help.
Thank you in advance
Mike

I would try OmniDiscSweeper (free download) http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/ and read this also: http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html

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