HELP: something is taking up 700G of storage on my new computer and I don't know what it is!

I have no idea what this item is and I can't seem to find it anywhere in my normal search. In my storage usage, it categorizes this item as "other", but I have no idea. And this just happened in the last 2 weeks. Any tips as to how I can search this out?
Thanks!

Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
Are you running Time Machine?
If so, that space is due to Time Machine snapshots.
No. There's a separate category for them, labelled "Backups" and shown in purple.
Connect your Backup drive and a regular backup cycle will remove them from your internal drive.
No. Local snapshots are entirely separate and independent of regular Time Machine backups. They're made whether the normal TM volume is available or not, and are deleted on a regular schedule (or when the disk gets over 80% full), again whether the TM volume is connected or not.
See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #30 for details.

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