Macintosh HD available space much greater than capacity?!?

Hi all,
Since earlier today, my MBPs hard drive is showing incorrect "available" space (see screenshot). Any suggestions on how I can sort this?
Thanks!

First reboot and see if it clears it up. If not I would boot into the Lion Recovery disk (command-r) and do a Repair Disk from Disk Utility.

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I'm new to this whole mac thing, and maybe I'm overlooking something....but this just doesn't seem right. If I click on the hard disk of my new 13" MBA 256G, and choose get info, I get the following:
Capacity: 250.14GB
Available: 296.42GB
How the heck does Lion think that I have more free space than the drive can even hold?

I would suggest booting from the Recovery Partition and repairing the disk with Disk Utility from there.
I have seen disks that report no errors when verified only to have errors corrected when repaired. In fact I hardly ever use verify for just that reason. I prefer to just be done with it and do a repiar in the first place.
Allan

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Yes, I've used Disk Utility to partition. I've done 1 partition, 2 partitions, 16 partitions, I've partitioned as Unix then back to Mac OS. When I had 16 partitions there were about 4.5 GBs per partition and it would say 20.4 GBs used on a 4.5 GB partition, this is the readout at the bottom of Disk Utility when you click on the drive. I've ran repair disk and everything is okay. I've ran Disk Warrior and everything is okay. It's very strange, my 80gb Firelite drive is completely empty, no data, it's been erased and partitioned a number of times and Disk Utility still says it has Used GBs, when it should be close to zero.

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So I recently purchased this Mac (Retina MacBook 15", Late 2013) and everything was hunky-dory. However, recently, after playing some video games, I noticed that I was no longer able to save the game. The game in question (The Witcher) prompted me with a dialog box that says that there is no more space to save the game. I knew that I had over 300 GB free on my main partition, since I don't use a lot of it. But when I checked Disk Utility, this happened.
Here, it shows that there are only 18.9 MB left in free space. When I click on the actual partition, this is what I get:
Obviously, there is some disconnect between the actual partition and the hard drive itself. When I press "About This Mac," it also shows the correct amount of space:
Any help would be appreciated. I turned Time Machine on and off, rebooted, repaired Disk Permissions and the Disk, but nothing changed. Thanks!

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If you don't already have a current backup, you must back up your data before you take the above step. You may be able to back up, even if the system isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
Directory corruption in a MacOS journaled volume is always the result of a drive malfunction. It's not caused by power failures, system crashes, or anything else. You might choose to tolerate such a malfunction once in the life of a drive. If it's repeated, the drive must be replaced, or there is some other hardware fault that needs to be corrected. Ignoring repeated directory errors will result in data loss.

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-I ran "Repair Disk Permissions" but still get warnings.
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But on my other user account I can use spotify and download large files, etc.

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
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{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
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res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
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Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
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I have a 200MB internal hard drive.
My SYSTEM PROFILER states:
Capacity=185.99GB (which I understand due to system use, etc)
Available= 26.25 GB (odd)
This available space reading seemed odd as I don't have much data on the HD (transferred files using Migration Assistant from a 80gb, 1.67ghz older G4 laptop).
So I went to the ACTIVITY MONITOR and looked at DISK USAGE at it states:
Space Utilized= 99.14 GB
Space Free= 25.85 GB
With a total of 124.99 GB between the two (the adjacent pie chart total)
MY QUESTION: If I have a HD with a capacity of 185.99 GB, with only 99.14 GB utilized, why is the space free missing 51 GBs? Where did this memory space go?
Note: I have never partitioned the Hard Drive or created any sort of RAM Disk.
Anyone? Please help.

UPDATE BUT STILL NO ANSWER:
Ran DISK UTILITY which fixed some minor errors and how states "Volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK"
But the issue remains - I have a 200GB hard drive but the data at the bottom of this utility reads:
Capacity : 186.0 GB (199,705,673,728 Bytes)
Available : 26.3 GB (28,291,375,104 Bytes)
Used : 98.6 GB (105,916,047,360 Bytes)
Number of Folders: 173,085
Number of Files: 886,070
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Now I have two questions and one task.
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I'm having some issues when trying to full optimize my application (on BPC 5.1). I get the following error:
Capacity must be greater than zero. Parameter name: Capacity
Save application and process from Analysis Services work without a complain but I'm not able to make it work from the application front-end.
The application is partitioned on a monthly basis, with 11 dims. I created a K2ServerDebug.log file on websrvr/bin for debug purposes but it seems that it's not creating the 4 other files
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