Losing Hardrive Space

Have a new mini mac about a month. Have 80g hardrive. I also have and external drive setup for my music and photos. My internal drive is now at 47gs dont know why i am losing hard drive space cant seem find out were its going. I am new to mac. Are there ways to see were my space is. I have tried searching no luck

You can use this utility to see all the files on your system, and it sorts them by large to small. This is the free version: http://software.filefactory.com/Mac/WhatSize_10-3-91.html

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