My hard drive says its half full, but I can't understand why.

I'm running a MacbookPro 2009 with 10.5.8 (Leopard) 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3. I recently deleted basically all media files that I had on here, images, videos, etc., or about 100 GB total. The capacity of my hard disk is 300 GB, and after execution of disk inventory X, it showed that I use about 30-35 GB, but when I go to "Get Info" on Macintosh HD, it is said that I used 150 GB and I can not for the life of understand me why. There is no volume fake, and I emptied my Recycle Bin and rebooted several times. Help, please!

Re-index Macintosh HD.

It will take some time. Wait, it's over.

System Preferences > Spotlight > privacy

http://support.Apple.com/kb/ht2409

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