Other is taking a lot of my drive, help! I need to restore my iTunes

So I got a message to delete some files because my memmory was low, when I came here to check I had 200 mb left; I had 104 gb from itunes and other was taking 105 gb, this picture was from today after I removed itunes, other is still huge and now I dont even have enough space to bring my itunes library back, what are my options?! I'm using TM back ups and another external back up . Thanks guys.

Well, other is all your personal data. So you'll need to go through that and delete a lot. Also, if you're using a laptop local snapshots may be taking up space in backups.
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