270GB of "hidden space"?

My Macbook Pro's hard drive has been running very low on memory for several months now. Frustrated with its constant slowness, crashing and temperature I decided to run a disk analysis to find out what was taking uo so much space. I was greeted with this:
Do you have any idea what's in the hidden space, where it is and what I can do about it? My only theory is that, because I left my Time Machine never backed up correctly (because I was trying to do it over wi-fi), all the backed up Time Machine files might have been cached on my hard drive before being sent to the Time Machine (which never happened).
Any ideas?

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For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
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Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
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Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
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As in my use case, can draw an af:toolbar component into statusbar of Panel Collection facets in Structure view.
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cannot see the Columns Hidden|Columns Frozen component in the Structure view,
and if drop more than one af:toolbar into statusbar, the sencond one will fall/wrap into second row, even though there is enough space on the first row (to occupy a second row in statusbar will be a waste of space), and cannot see how to adjust.
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