My internal drive is filling up by itself. cannot find any huge files.

my internal drive is filling up by itself. cannot find any huge files. backing up onto external drive which has room. OSX 10.6. created an external library for aperture to make space. created 32 gigs on my internal disc, down to 8oo megs overnight. when I disconnect from the internet the available space seems to stay stable. ran disc utility and fixed permissions. firewall was on. last software download was OS5 for iPhone which should not have any effect. any ideas? thx

now the space dropped from 5.2 to 4.77 gb within two minutes, while disk activity was audible. i looked at mail and one of my accounts with bellsouth was constantly running. i deactivated that account and the hd space went up to 4.89 and is now stable. what is that all about?

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