How to free up space on Mac Pro "other" Storage Category

Shows 25.73GB free out of 150.18GB -- with 98GB in unknown "other" category. How do I locate those files and access them to try to clear up more space?
Mac Pro 13, 10.9.5 IOS, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memor 8GB 1067 MHz DDR3, 8GB memory installed.

If you are running Yosemite then this is a bug. If you need to know this information then select the Desktop icon for your drive. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. The information is displayed in the top  panel as: Capacity, Available, and Used.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
  1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
  2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
  3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
  4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
  5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
  6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

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