Is this normal?  I've lost 100 Gigs of space on my hard drive.

The main drive in my MacPro is a 240 Gig hard drive.
I total up all the folders at the top level, and it totals only 84 Gigs. Yet it says there is 30 Gigs available.
There is 55 Gigs being used up for vm. Only one user account, me. One partition.
So there is about 100 Gigs unaccounted for.
I would normally expect some space taken up with hidden files, but 100 Gigs is a bit much.
Is this normal?

Those programs are great, but do have some limitations and may not find your missing space. Take a look at the article I wrote on disappearing drive space for some more suggestions:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html
If all else fails the Terminal commands given should locate the bloat. And if you have other user accounts, be sure to check them. People often find surprising things in a forgotten account (one fellow found two iTunes libraries sitting in another user account).
Francine
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