How can I delete the "Other" on my MacBook Air HD?

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How can I delete the "Other" on my MacBook Air HD?

I recently noticed that on my 128GB hardrive on my MacBook Air, there is only about 1.66GB left of space, and that 59.97GB is taken up by "Other". This is really frusturating seeing as I have no idea how to access these files and delete them. I think it might be local back ups from Time Machine, but I have backed up my hardrive to my external drive since i noticed the huge loss of space and I have since then turned off Time Machine but stiill the "Other" is still there. So could someone please help me in figuring out how to get rid of all this excess filler would be fantastic. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me figure this out, its highly appreciated

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Jan 31, 2012 7:47 PM

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shldr2thewheel

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Jan 31, 2012 7:52 PM in response to TCam44

TCam44 wrote:

I think it might be local back ups from Time Machine

Local snapshots from Time Machine are in the "backups category". "Other" is considered a miscelaneous category. It is made up of everything that doesn't fit in the other, more defined categories. You don't want to delete everything in there as is contains some important things, such as the operating system, system files, etc. You can downloadOmniDiscSweper to find large files. Also, read these: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html, http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html, http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html

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