WHERE HAS MY HARD DRIVE SPACE GONE?

I am confused!
I regularly run What Size to see what is using up my hard drive and the figures don't make sense. At the bottom of the finder window it states that I have 19.31gb available. What Size also states that I have 19.31gb available but the What Size figures don't add up. The main items are Users 132gb - Library 17.2gb - Applications 14.1gb - System 3.87gb - Usr 1.05gb - Everything else 2gb. As you can see this totals approx 170gb. My drive is 250gb (net capacity 232gb) which suggests I should have 62gb available and not 19.3gb.
Thoughts and help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
David.

Have you thought of invisible files? If you run [this|http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Automator-Actions---Workflows/Show-Hide-Invi sible-Files.shtml] you should be able to see them and add them to your total. If, in fact, you only have 19.3GB left on your disk, you should think bout clearing some stuff off, or investing in a larger drive, 10% free space is the minimum one should have.

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Where did my hard drive space go

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Download a utility like OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 to provide a map of how your drive space is used. Also, you should look at how much space you consume in your Home folder:
Navigate to /Users/ folder. Select your Home folder. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. This will display in the upper panel the follwing:
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I also have a different problem and started a thread here. It was that thread that lead me to start this new one.
One of the people helping me there suggested I make a new user account and see if that solved my problem. I made two new user accounts, one a 'standard' and the other an 'administrator.' In both cases the new user accounts have no hard drive space, and no download or document folder in the dock.
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Any thoughts on what could be happening or how to resolve? My hard drive recently disappeared so I took it in to a Mac Genius and under AppleCare the hard drive was replaced. I did a full restore from Time Machine and have repaired permissions countless times since then and also run DiskWarrior. Repair Permissions returns a message that Apple has posted can be ignored; no other issues. DiskWarrior found two errors related to directory structure and repaired/replaced them. Other than my original problem and this new one regarding the new user accounts having no hard drive space my system runs fine.
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Sorry I wasn't clear in the first post. On my way into work today I started thinking it may be time to start over as well. You mentioned archive and install - would a clean install be better (I know it will be longer)?
Also, just for clarification - when I did a Full Restore from Time Machine was that the same as say restoring from a program like SuperDuper (that clones the hard drive)?
My thinking on this is if I do clean install, I should not restore from Time Machine if the structure carries over. That could be what is causing these problems. Instead I should back up my iPhoto and iTunes libraries via the built in back-up (to an external hard drive or DVDs), back up any documents, etc. and then really start over. Do a clean install, then reload 3rd party software from the original disks and restore the iPhoto and iTunes libraries, etc.

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under the "sidebar" tab tick the boxes of the things you want to be shown in the side bar of Finder.
under the "General" tab tick the boxes of the things you want to be shown on the desktop.
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Ok, so heres the situation:
I purchased a new Macbook Pro with the intentions of doing a clean install on my old Macbook Pro 17",
Neither Lion nor Snow Leopard will reinstall on the old Macbook because only 159GB of space is available,
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So I was using Disk Utility to "Erase Free Space" on my hard drive like I have done once before. I forgot to turn off the Sleep function of the computer before I left the room and when I came back the computer was asleep and Disk Utility had stopped. When I lookes at the free space on my hard drive it had went from about 39GB of free space to 772KB (The **** thing was almost done) I know that the computer just writes Zeros over all of the free space and the computer is supposed to say that startup disk is almost full, but now that computer thinks that all of the space that the Zeros were written on is actually data that I want to keep on the hard drive. I have tried re-running the Utility and it just Erases the 72 KB of Free Space that it thinks is left.
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Yeah I had that problem for 3 days before I figured it out...
Use WhatSize and meaure your hardrive.
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Since a few weeks, I have been experiencing issues with iCloud. My free storage space seems to just vanish.
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Very odd. Both WhatSize and OmniDiskSweeper are often the recommended options for viewing drive contents in exactly this sort of situation, where finding something like an untrimmed log file that has consumed all but a small amount of free space has otherwise proven difficult.
However, since disk utilities did not report any errors, at least we know that the drive is OK. We can also surmise that the issue isn't merely that the Finder is mis-reporting free space since at the outset you remarked that the system had become very sluggish - a common indicator of minimal free space.
I have encountered broadly similar issues before, caused by such things as a file in the trash that could not be emptied but which was not visible when opening the trash to examine it, and File Vault (if you have it turned on, turn it off and try WhatSize again) but clearly you've tried all the common and tried and tested means to identify the specific cause of the lost space - leaving nothing obvious to suggest.
You mentioned that you have an external to which you could copy your data, and it occurs to me that it would be interesting to know if you were to use Carbon Copy Cloner (from versiontracker) to backup your internal drive to the external, how much space the backup would take, since if the sizing utilities can't find the extra data, CCC may also not. If you were to try that, you would end up with a bootable external which at least would allow you to dig around in the data without fear of loosing something important.

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I can't figure out where 120 GB of Hard Drive Space has gone. I've scoured other similar threads, but none like this:
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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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