missing hard drive space

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Hi there, i have a 17" macbook pro running Mac OX X Tiger and recently I noticed that my harddrive was almost full. I started to delete alot of things from the computer and I tried calculating and adding up how much space my stuff takes up and I seem to have something like 20GB missing.

Im not too sure how much space Mac OS X Tiger takes up but i doubt it would take up 20GB. I also do the software update frequently.

And also, how do i delete temporary files like on windows? I notice that when I run Shake, hard drive space slowly disappears. Thing is when i close Shake the space doesnt come back. On my windows computer, my norton antivirus accumulates all the excess files and I can delete it through that, not sure how to clean it out on the mac though.

hope that makes sense, thanks.
 
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