My HD is full of mystery data? getting the "start up disc is full" error.

For a while I have been getting the "your startup disc is full" prompt,
which is strange because I have no where near 27G's on the HD.
Looking in the finder I see my file vault is listed with an extra 10GB that is not there.
I ran the maintenance scripts, they did not fix the problem.
Any help will be appreciated! thanks

Jonathan,
what happens if I take off all the files and there still is not enough room?
Good question. One possible solution: Download Monolingual and remove all languages you do not need. On my computer this freed up 1.5 GB today. After that you should have enough disk space to turn off FileVault.
Do not forget to mark the tread as "SOLVED" once this is accomplished.

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