Storage statistics / Disk usage shows wrong info

Hi all!
I've found a very strange bug in OS X Yosemite. The info about storage statistics shown in About my Mac dialog is wrong:
As you can see, I have a 250GB SSD Drive which is 162,87GB used, but App's statistics show 342,48GB used!!! How it could be possible? Anyone has this same issue? Any way to fix it?
Regards.

Thanks Eric!
This solved my issue!!!

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