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Ok, my friend got me into this torrent thing and it's kinda neat and all but now I have a problem. I have been downloading files directly to my external HD for a while and all of the sudden my computer pops the "startup disk is almost full" warning on me and for a second it shows 3 icons of my. Weird? So I go checking around and all the files did go to my external and not my internal yet still I'm losing internal HD space...hmmm. 

I start snooping around. I find out many of the files are neither on the internal or the external. These "phantom files" (let me know if you have a better name) are taking up my internal HD space! And I can't get rid of them!
What's the weirdest thing is that I've used some of these "phantom files". I watched a video clip that was supposedly d/l to my external HD but now it's gone! I look in recent items and there it is! I can even play it! but i cant find it in finder or anywhere else! Where the crap is this thing?! I got so mad i ejected my drive. I can still watch them in recent items! If I go to "save as" I can see the directory still there for my External but only the folder where the video is supposed to be located. ARGH! Someone help me! I just want them to go away!