Possible Sleep or Time Machine Problem - Please Read

I am using Leopard by the way.
I accidentally put my mac into sleep mode and after it came back on all of my hard drive space was gone. I had like 50 gigs or so before and now I it is showing around 7 gigs. I am assuming there was a swap file or such created so my question is where is it located at so I can delete.
Thanks for any suggestions you may be able to offer.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Select "system.log" from the file list. Enter "backupd" (without the quotes) in the Filter text field. Post the messages from the last backup, beginning with "Starting standard backup." Post the log text, please, not a screenshot. Edit out excessive repeats, if any. Some personal information, such as the names of your files, may be included – edit that out, too, but don’t remove the context.

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