Lost 150GB

I have been cleaning up and deleting a lot of excess files. My free space has not been improving much. I have about 150GB discrepancy. Looking in Finder with hidden folders showing totals about 431 GB used, 68 GB free. "About this Mac" similar numbers, with 222 GB in "Other". Audio, Movies, Photos, Apps and Backups are consistent with Finder Backup consistent. Whatsize confirms these numbers, too.
However, adding up the actual details of Finder (showing hidden files, logged in as Admin, opening every folder to make sure it recalculates sizes) show only 285 GB used, 214 GB free. The difference is 146GB. What happened?
I have emptied Trash, run Disk Utility for permissions and verify, turned off Mobileupdates, rebooted, logged in as other two users to empty trash, etc., booted into Safe Mode, deleted excess swap files, looked at /Volumes, deleted caches, etc.
Spotlight-V100 is less than 1GB, Private+System+Library is 32 GB, and included in the totals above.
Where else can the files be? Evil malware? Super double hidden? Never ran Bittorent, Tor, as a server to the Internet, etc.

First understand what the category OTHER is:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867
Do not get obsessed by the name.
When you ran OmniDiskSweeper and Grand Perspective, what were the values for all the data on the SSD? Was it about 401!GB± If not, what do they show?
These are from mine:
In the Grand Perspective display, are there any large prominent blocks? If so, hover the cursor over them and find out what they are>
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Hi…
I was doing a backup using Superduper when the external HD (the backup) disconnected from the Mac. After doing a restart I realize that I had about 100GB of free space and before putting Superduper in use I had 240GB free.
I search with Disk Inventory X and found nothing. If I do a Info on the HD it shows that I have 100GB free but when I do a Info on the 4 folders (Applications, Library, System and Users) that are on the HD it only shows a total of 230GB (more or less).
The HD has 500GB. Where are those 150GB???
I already cleaned with Onyx, but the result is the same.
Thanks.

Be careful of what you're looking at.
Anything directly under /Volumes is typically a disk volume (or partition), not necessarily a folder on your disk. Therefore I would expect your /Volumes/BackupMacBookPro to be a disk, not a folder on your boot disk. It might even be your actual backup disk, in which case deleting it would be bad. There isn't really enough information here to go on, though, to tell if that's really the case or not.
In either case you can't rely on the Finder to tell you where your space is, but I'm surprised that DiskInventory X can't find it, either.
A better approach may be to use the terminal, as scary as that might seem.
I'd start with:
df -h
which will give a snapshot of your attached disks, including size and utilization.
If that hints at a problem, try:
sudo du -hsx /*
which will give you a breakdown of the content on your boot drive - note this may take some time to run. If any directory looks unusually large you can drill into that directory for more detail - e.g. to look at the /var directory use:
sudo du -hxs /var/*
This will give you a far better picture of your disk usage and should help.

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*Adding new items/removing orphans*
Try iTunes Folder Watch or iTunes Library Updater. Folder Watch is much faster on the adding files front, can be set to run in the background and includes a useful exclusion feature, however it’s slow at removing orphans. iTLU is better for this although doing it manually after looking at a list of proposed removals generated by Folder Watch is probably faster still. iTLU can also be set to update iTunes when you've used 3rd party tools to change tag info.
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Hello Theresa818,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!
It sounds like the cellular data will not activate for some reason on the iPad.
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Reset network settings: Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.
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I know you may have done one or two of the steps here, so you can skip those.
Take care,
Sterling

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