Where Is All My Free Space!

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91MADAMS

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I recently bought an external hard drive for my mac (power book G4 1.67GHz PowerPC-512MB DDR2 SDRAM) and copied lots of files, images, videos applications etc to it and deleted them of my actual computer.

I did this to free up space but according to "get info" when selecting my startup disk icon; I have 1.78GB available out of 74.41GB!

My external hard drive is 160GB and with the switch I have done, all I have left on my computer are the necessary files etc, I need to get by.

WHY HAVE I ONLY GOT 1.78 GB LEFT ON MY COMPUTER?

I am not very computer literate but I know it should be more than that....

(I have definitely deleted everything from trash/restarted etc.)
 
Try running a program like "WhatSize" or "GrandPerspective" both will give you a very quick visual indication of where the bloating is occurring. Once you know WHAT files are too big, you can figure out what to do with them.
 
Not wishing to over simplify things but after you moved them to the trash you did empty it, if not that is where the space will have gone ?
 
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