I need help...just lost about 20gigs of HD space

Hi folks...I installed three programs....Handbrake, Mactheripper and ffxmpegx, and i copied a movie to my desktop (temporarily) all in all...about 1 gig. A few hours ago...I realized though that I'm missing about 28 gigs of HD space.
My question is the following.
is there a program or feature on the mac, that will allow me to see which programs are taking up the most amount of space? For example, my pc, has the 'add/remove programs' section, which also states program sizes.
If anyone can help, i'd appreciate it. Thanks

Hi George
Your post didn't mention, do you use FileVault?
I've seen a number of these 'disappearing space' issues caused by a feature of FileVault: it doesn't recover disk space when you delete anything unless it's plugged in to an AC outlet.
Note I said 'feature' not 'bug'. The sparse file (which is what FileVault stores the encrypted profile in) can only be shrunk to recover space while you are logging off or restarting. It could be catastrophic to interrupt this process, so it won't offer to do it while the machine is not plugged in.
If you do use it, try plugging in the laptop then either restarting or just logging out. When it asks if you want to recover space, agree & let it run.
Peace
Greg
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