Storage shows 66 GB of Apps but on only 60 GB of hard drive space

Odd right? What's going on here?

Try booting into the Recovery Drive and running Repair Disk in Disk Utility .
Boot into the Recovery Drive by holding down Command R when restarting.
Run Repair Drive and Repair Permissions using Disk Utility in Recovery.
When you restart, boot into your Air using Safe Boot mode. Then restart normally.
Safe boot
* shutdown
* start the Mac and *wait* for the startup chime to sound
* after the sound, press and hold down the shift key
* keep holding and *wait* until the grey  Apple logo appears
* now release the shift key and just wait (it could take a few minutes)
* eventually the login screen appears with the words SAFE BOOT
* continue to login to see if the problem goes away.

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Id choose the I5 yes, depends on what your usage is going to be,
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Using iPhoto Library Manager to Rebuild Your iPhoto Library
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2 - select the library you want to add from those in the selection window.
3 - make sure that in the rebuild window the checkbox "Scavange orphaned photos" is checked.
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Note 2: Your current library will be left untouched for further attempts at a fix if so desired.
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2 - outside programs, including WhatSize, list less. For example, Whatsize (which I paid for), only finds 331 GB of used space (but lists 451 GB as "used" in the upper left corner).
3 - commands like sudo du -hd1 only show me using 284 GB.
I'd like to find WHERE the 120 GB is being eaten before trying to figure out WHY. But I got into the root directory in finder anyway, and found nothing unusual.
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