Problem with free space on itnernal hdd on mac book pro!

On the about this mac menu i storage i get 512 gb of backups and if you add all the numbers given for the internal hd the total is 837.88 gb on a 750 gb hd! When i go to finder my macbook pro and get info on the macintosh hd ->get info i get 582 bg free! i have repaird the disk permitions and repaird the disk! but it doesnt seen to work!

what i want to say is that there is a problem with reading the actual free space from the hard drive....i had 259gb free space and after deleting 100gb + and restarting i had only 100 gb free indicated...!
these are the values i take at the same time!! they are obviusly both wrong!!

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