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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cdginther" data-source="post: 352946" data-attributes="member: 28722">I'm new to mac osx, and have run into a space problem on my hard drive and am hoping someone can help. I somehow managed to create a 40gb .sparse file (I think it had something to do with filevault) on a 80gb hard drive. I moved the file to the trash and then emptied it, rebooted, but now now the space is being reported as used even though it doesn't show up in any of the disk inventory tools I've tried.I tried doing all of the things in this post <a href="http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243" target="_blank">http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243</a>, but still no luck. Does anybody have any idea how I can recover this space without reinstalling the OS. It's using over half my hard drive, and I can't find it!</blockquote>