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50gb of my hard drive is missing

I have a 75gb hard drive on my mac book, which is about a year old, but an increasing amount seems to be disappearing. I've used What Size, Omnidisksweeper and jdiskreport to scan the hard drive they only scan about 25gb of space, which is where all my applications, library and files like photos and documents are. If I check the hard drive info it says I have 74.21gb capacity. What is using up this extra 50gb? I've also used Cocktail to run all the maintenance scripts and delete logs and caches, but it hasn't made much difference. I use Chronosync to synchronise certain folders with my desktop - could this be causing a problem?
I'm at a loss!
Thanks.

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 13, 2007 7:28 AM

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Oct 13, 2007 2:50 PM in response to First Magus

Thanks Mort. Francine's Amazing Disappearing Disk Space was v useful. I've found 45 GB of files in an invisible folder called /.Trashes/501 but I've failed to delete them in the Terminal using the rm command.. I can delete only the files (many of them are images) which have their original name from the camera, but not files which have text names. Any ideas?

At least I feel like I'm making progress!

50gb of my hard drive is missing

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