How do I reduce OTHER storage on my Hard drive...

How does one reduce the OTHER store on the hard drive. I have a 160G hard drive and constantly get reminded of lack of storage on my drive. I have reduced by transferring photos to an external drive but am trying to find out what and how to reduce the OTHER category in the storage on the drive...

This will shed some light on, "other" >  OSX Tips The Storage Display

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    "I haven't read the whole thread, so someone could have already mentioned this, but I did the same thing, move my music library to an external drive. The Help articles are helpful, but only up to a point. When that didn't work, I called up AppleCare support up, and they took me through all the standard steps, and got stumped at the same point I did. Finally she suggested trying something, and that ended up doing the trick. So here in brief is what you do:
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  • How do i recover data from an external hard drive that was accidentally deleted?  After I verified the drive, a message appeared that said my drive needed to be repaired.  When I tried to access the drive again, the 700 Gigs of music is gone!

    How do i recover data from an external hard drive that was accidentally deleted?  After I verified the drive, a message appeared that said my drive needed to be repaired.  When I tried to access the drive again, the 700 Gigs of music is gone!

    Stop using the drive immediately, un plug it.
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  • HT1473 I want to keep my music on my external hard drive to free up room on my computer how do i get itunes to recognise the hard drive to play the music?

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    Immediately press and hold down the shift key
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    If iTunes opens normally close and go back to step 1.
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    If you had copied across as directed there would be no need to move anything back...
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