Q: 18.32GB of "movies" on my hard drive?

I have a 121GB hard rive on my Mac OSX mavericks 10.9.5

It says I have 18.32GB of movies on the hard drive.. I re indexed my spotlight, went through photo booth, iMovie, iTunes + iTunes media folder, iPhoto, Finder, and restarted my computer multiples times. I've looked everywhere online at all the different forums about this issue and nothing is working for me. Where else can I look for those files that count as "movies" ?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)

Posted on Jun 17, 2016 1:17 PM

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Dootdoot867 Jun 17, 2016 1:56 PM in response to Dootdoot867
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Jun 17, 2016 1:56 PM in response to Dootdoot867

Update: I went into Finder and went to the search criteria and put Kind -> Movies.. System Files -> are included... It came up with like 300 and something 5sec videos that I've never seen before. Deleted those and now my Movie size is 18.24GB... What else could it be? D:
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lllaass Jun 17, 2016 2:19 PM in response to Dootdoot867
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Jun 17, 2016 2:19 PM in response to Dootdoot867

Try an app like the following to better find what is taking up the movies
https://www.omnigroup.com/more
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
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Dootdoot867 Jun 17, 2016 2:50 PM in response to lllaass
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Jun 17, 2016 2:50 PM in response to lllaass

So I used the omnidisksweeper and i found 1.6 GB under movies.. not 18.24GB D: D:
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lllaass Jun 17, 2016 2:56 PM in response to Dootdoot867
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Jun 17, 2016 2:56 PM in response to Dootdoot867

Try indexing SpotLight Search
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
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Dootdoot867 Jun 17, 2016 3:12 PM in response to lllaass
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Jun 17, 2016 3:12 PM in response to lllaass

Did that, still at 18.24 GB
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Dootdoot867 Jun 17, 2016 4:53 PM in response to Dootdoot867
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Jun 17, 2016 4:53 PM in response to Dootdoot867

Okay! It's all good now. Just incase someone was having the same problem I had, I found this http://www.cnet.com/news/what-to-do-when-about-this-mac-lies-to-you/ and I followed what it said and now my "movies" section is taking up only 88mb.! Thanks IIIaass of trying to help!
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