Lightroom library over 120gb - any idea how to down-size easily?

Hi
I am new to this forum but have been using Lightroom V2 for quite a while, hence my Lightroom library is now taking up over 120gb on my Macbook Pro hardrive (OSX 10.5) Ideally I would like to keep all the images in there (Everything in my library is immaculately organised: tagged, flagged, keyworded, put in collections etc.), but as lot of the images are huge files, this is just not possible, as my harddrive is only 180gb.
Can anyone think of an easy (ish) was of reducing the size of the files, without having to export each collection, and re-importing, as this mess up my organisation, and take a long time.
Any ideas are really appreciated! And any tips, so I don't get myself into this mess again in the future would be helpful too :o)
Many thanks
Alice

Unless you have a lot of images, it would be unusual for the catalogue to be as big as 120 gb. From your reply, one assumes most of this 120Gb is edited files (PSD, TIF etc). However, one possibility is that you may also have the originals in that folder - I asked where the originals were, and you said where they were backed up.
So using Finder open up the folder where your lrcat file and the lrdata folder are located, and see what else is there. It's a common mistake to have picture files in that folder too.
Once we're sure where files are, then sorting it out will be less confusing.

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