Missing hardrive space? gone?

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IMac 24" 4G ram 500G HD
Need help, It say in disk utility that my hd is 465G, but when i info my macinthoshd it say capacity is 401g and im using 367G ( yes i filled it... mostly movies) where the 65g? system os dosent take 65g.....

because of that i cant make back up on my 400G .. say it to samll... thought i im only using 367G..

eny help? dunno if i was clear enough...
 
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MacMini 14.3, 8.1 & 4.1, OS 13.5, 10.14, & 10.11 & 10.6; Macbook Pro 8.2, OS 10.12.
Need help ... where the 65g? system os dosent take 65g ... eny help?

What's in the Trash? Does it need emptying? Are you using a backup utility that's duplicating every file (including all those movies), every time you open/use them?
 
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13"/2.0Ghz/4GB/80GB/White Macbook
exact same thing happened to me, I was missing nearly 20GB (of 80GB)

Just put in the boot disk, restart, on boot hold the C key than, run Disk Utility,

select your disk, hit repair disk, & given that you had the same problems I did, it should repair the volume free block count, giving you your real hdd space back
 

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