My iMac hard drive is full, and I don't know how to fix it.

My iMac hard drive is full.  Approximately 495GB of "Other" is crushing it.  I saw some threads online refer to this issue ... something to do with ASL files.  Can anyone help?

First try to download OmniDiskSweeper then launch that to sweep the drive this will give you information on the size of your files and folders.  This will give you a starting point as to what to do with your large files you can move them to an external hard drive or delete them within the program.  Note: Be careful of the items you delete. 

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