Lost space on mac

i recently upgraded my macbook from mountain lion to os x mavericks but i came to discover that 263 GB of my space is occupied by old backup files which i can neither locate nor view but when i go to "about my mac" under the storage tab i see the space is occupied..i tried deleting old files but i got no yields. kindly how do i delete the backups since i already have the machine backed up on an external HDD?

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