Storage appears full but is not...

Hi all!
not sure if it's the right place, but my MacBookPro is showing storage memory of ca.500GB almost full. Checked fotos, movies, music, apps, etc. and they are under 50GB in total... what's going on?? (trash has been emptied)
pls help!! Really need that memory.. :S
Thx! =)
PS: 499.25GB total storage, says 37.06GB free. The files I have occupy more or less 30GB!!! :S

Shenti wrote:
OMG! it says 372GB for mail???? then it makes me go throug a REALLY long pathway inside the "recovered mail" folder untill I actually get to the original files... one of the folders has a suspicious name (only letters and numbers). Granted, I have a lot of e-mails saved.... but is it normal that they take up so much space???!!! could this be a virus or malware of some sort???
thx! =)
There are no viruses for osx
Viruses: Are programs that earn their name by their ability to replicate themselves locally & often across a network. Many attach themselves to to other programs. When you launch one of these programs, the virus code launches as well & the virus goes about its nefarious business. Viruses are exceedingly rare on the Mac. There are no know viruses for OSX.
Trojans: Promises one thing but delivers another. You can download a program but when you run the program, the contents of your computer are instead beamed to an underground data center in Kamchatka. If you obtain software from reliable sites, you are unlikely to get a Trojan horse.
Adware: Has an embedded advertising component - one that displays or downloads ads when you run the software. Some adware is legitimate, part of the price of using a free program such as the Iconfactory's Twitterrific or Eudora for example.
Spyware: Grabs data from your computer & ofen uses it for the purposes of evil, sending personal info to a baddie or when you're using your web browser, redirecting you to site you don't want to visit.
Mac users have nothing to worry about regarding Spyware & Adware because in order for the worse forms to work, the OS must allow unrestricted access to its more sensitive parts. The Mac OS doesn't.
Free Software: ClamXav
iAntiVirus
User Tip: Mac Viruses
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It doesn’t get PC viruses.

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