Importing error - HDD free space lost?!!

Hey,
So I had around 9 GB free space on my macbook and, using iPhoto, imported photo's from a camera with a max space of 4GB (it says it had used up around 3.6GB on the card). Near the end of the importing process an alert that I'm running out of disc space appeared, and Finder said i had only 400KB free space left, even though it should have only decreased to a minimum of 5GB!
Then all my applications started to freeze and I was forced to force quit iPhoto before the import had completed and turn off my laptop. After restarting it, there seems to be only 3GB free space left and no photo's have been imported from the camera!
Where have 6GB gone?! Are the photo's filed somewhere and I just can't find them?! And if so, why has it taken up 6GB instead of 3.6GB?!
Thanks in advance!

You're running an overcrowded disk and that's very dangerous.
So I had around 9 GB free space on my macbook
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on. Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Then:
imported photo's from a camera with a max space of 4GB (it says it had used up around 3.6GB on the card
Your assumption that importing 3.6 gigs of material only uses 3.6 gigs is erroneous. In the process of importing temporary files are created and removed as the copying process goes on - that's that whole "temporary files and virtual memory" mention above - so the process of copying your files takes more space than the final requirement, so your disk fills up and then
Then all my applications started to freeze and I was forced to force quit iPhoto before the import had completed and turn off my laptop.
Now when you restart:
Where have 6GB gone?! Are the photo's filed somewhere and I just can't find them?! And if so, why has it taken up 6GB instead of 3.6GB?!
It's taken up that space because of the temporary files and so on. And they're there still because the disk is so full the operating system can't properly clean up after the failed import.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do. Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.
Regards
TD

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