Lost HDD space

Hi,
I was using Azureus bittorrent when I lost a couple of gigs of harddrive space. The files to be downloaded were to be put straight across to an external usb drive I have.
This hasn't been a problem before but it just went crazy today and all this space vanished...
Any tips? I'm finding it quite hard to work out where this can have gone.
going to try posting this in the ibook section as well.
Thanks

this was really useful
however
as it turns out the files to be copied had been hidden in a hidden folder called Volumes. setting finder to show all and then removing this cleared it up
thanks
fred

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