Missing hard drive space: >600GB?

Restart your Mac, holding down command-r until you hear the chime. This will boot you into Lion Recovery mode. From the Utility menu, select Disk Utility, then select Macintosh HD when the Disk Utility window appears. Click the Repair Disk button- if there are repairs reported, run it again. Once complete, restart your Mac.

If that does not free up space, drop a note.

HTH

Also have a good read of the following - click:

OSX Tips

Where did my Disk Space go?

In that comprehensive guide, Pondini recommends using a utility that visibly shows all occupied space. Read the purple text in the green box - it might be worth the investment of $12.99. The difference between it and the free utilties is that it can be run "As Admin" which is the only thing that will reveal hidden folders and files not normally visible to the user. I suspect that's what the problem is. Fixing it may be another matter.

That guide is as complete and priceless as anything you are likely to find anywhere. All I can suggest is to make sure you didn't miss anything.

If you have studied it thoroughly and still can't find the 600 GB gorilla hiding in your hard disk I don't know what else to do.

Ah. That may be a simple matter of rebuilding the mailbox. If that doesn't fix it there are other ways.

I had the same issue and deleting on my desktop and also using external HD as scratch disk for imovie and deleting never shown at all.

I ran the disk Inventory X and it shows all the files in hlink folder which is used by "Disk Drill" application... How Diskdrill app avoid emptying trash is beyond me and it also very difficult to get rid of it as well.

I will avoid disk drill as it shows under hand methods to sell its products.

First once Disk Inventory shows the files use it show in the finder and start deleting this horrible hlink folder.

I had the same dilema when my disk space was almost full....

I then found out that iPhoto has a seperate Trash bin.

I checked and found photos I deleated from a long time ago when I was organizing my photos.

I deleted them and it went to the System Trash bin, and emptied my trash bin.

It freed so much space in my disk drive.

Guys,

The culprit is Disk Drill... It basically kept down deep all files (hudreds of Gb) I deleted over the past year from my 750 Gb Harddrive...

Even after deleting Disk Drill it leaves a hidden partition called .cleverfiles. After using the application FreeDiskSpace I discovered that my 750 Gb harddrive was storing including the deleted files deep down a total of 1,5 Tb and that the famous partition .cleverfiles had a folder containing over 1,29 Tb of deleted files... the name of that hidden folder is hlink.ref

Well at least I discovered where was the 450 Gb Space Gorilla on my HD, which in fact happens to be a 1.29 Tb monster of files...

I haven't deleted it yet, as it is a goldmine of files I deleted and lost ages ago... at least I will be able to recover some of the files I've been crying for... Also I want to be sure how to delete it a and make it disappear for ever...

Well no need to spend 12 bucks when you can download FreeDiskSpace for free from the AppStore...

Hope this will help you solve the problem...

I had the same problem. .cleverfiles is a hidden partition created by the application Disk Drill. If you enable the "Guarenteed Protection" it moves all deleted files to the hidden folder instead of actually deleting them. You can disable it altogether or configure to only keep certain Folders or only user a certain amount of space. I didn't know the feature existed and It was hard to find even after I read it exisited. From the main disk drill screen, expand the main drive, and select "Potect" next to the Hard Drive.