My hard disk is full how do i fix this?

I have a macbook pro with OSX lion and i have one of those time capsules. This happened before or something similar to this did and basically the way my cousin got me to fix it is he had me open the terminal app, type in "sudo tmutil disablelocal", then have me enter my pasword and then restart my computer....it worked the last time this happened and he basically said instead of my laptop just backing up to the time capsule it was saving it to both the time capsule and my macbook. Yesterday i got the "unable to do this because the startup disc is full" message so i looked and it seemed like it was the same thing. when i go to about this mac and then go to more info and then storage it says i only have 42.97 gb out of 318.89 gb. it says 35.98gb is audio, 18.33gb is movies, 546.5mg is photos, 4.95gb is apps, backups it says 0kb, then it says i have 216.12gb of "other". this is exactly what it looked like last time when it was the backup problem...how do i fix this? its really slowing down my computer. HELP!

Well both kinda. if this "other" is because its backing up to both devices then yes i want to get rid of all the backup on my macbook because i have it on the time capsule so i dont need it on here. but also to make it back up to one device only if that is the problem.

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