I have 200 Gig of "Other"

Before downloading Mt Lion, I had more than 3/4 of my HD available. Now I have near to nothing because I have 200 GIG of Other. What the **** is it and how do I deal with it? The computer is running fine, but I suspect in a while it won't be. Surely there shold be a way to identify this stuff and get rid of it.
I tried Disk Utility and repairing permissions, but it didn't help.

Parrish Jones wrote:
E.G. there is a lot of "Mobile Synch bkup that is using a lot of space. However I haven't a clue what is needed and isn't.
Those are backups of your mobile devices.
I need to get rid of ****, but it doesn't tell me where the **** is. I have all this stuff called "Other" that does not show up as other on my HD with Daisy DIsk.
See The Storage Display for an explanation of what's in "Other." 200 GB sounds like quite a lot, though, so see Where did my Disk Space go? The steps there may find some large stuff that's hidden.

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http://tinyurl.com/85w6xwn
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1. See Lion/Mountain Lion's 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.
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What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?- Apple Support Communities

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I have a gen 1 iPhone running V2.0.
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help!

I have 4.2 gigs of "other" on my iPhone

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Solution
My "other" partition was up to 25G !!!! on my iphone 4S and I didn't want to restore my phone as I would loose important SMS and info on it and re-arrnage 1000 apps again.
I found this link and followed the steps
http://www.ipodrepublic.com/iphone/fixing-issue-other-files-iphone-memory/2010/0 3/31/#comment-47142
Using that program suggested was free too. I used it straight away after downloading it. I removed my files in
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- ApplicationArchives - all the big stuff
- Recordings - all currupt M4a in there
Vola! My phone now has 25GB back!!!!! Other is just 26 killo bytes! yes Killo bytes!
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Hey guys,
I am having the issue where I have 5.5 gigs of "other" data appearing on my Iphone summary, I've seen a bunch of posts where people say you'll need to restore to get that to disappear, my question is when I restore do I lose my progress in games like Cut the Rope and Angry Birds? My girlfriend will kill me if she has to redo all those levels again, if anyone can shed some light on this I would greatly appreciate it,
have a great day,

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