SD card reads full when is not

Imac reads SD card full when is half full, I formatted in the phone and out of the phone, fat32 and fat16, i can't only load 50 songs in a 2gig SD card,

Hi, I have the encountered the same thing. to be specific, I have a Macbook Pro (late 2011 model). 4 GB memory and 500 GB SATA disk. now its showing that i have 1 GB free out of the 499.25 GB. It is crazy! i checked all the files i have (including apps and documents and even itunes library) it only added up to 186 GB. I deleted unimportant files but it just freed up like a few MBs. It's also curious to note that my friend who also just bought macbook pro  2 weeks ago is also experiencing the same problem. Please help me with this. any information will do. i also need to know how i can check for hidden files..plsss..

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