"Other" taking up all my space?

I have the 60GB MacBook Air and in storage it says that "other" is taking up 59.81 GB. How to i get rid of the "other"?

iheartapple1970 wrote:
"other" on the mac is anything not in the other categories listed typically it can include any ios device backups and sometimes the user mail folder takes up this "other space"
you can open finder get info on items in here until you find the item that is abnormally large
ios backups are stored in the following location:
~/Library/Application Support/Mobile Sync/Backup (~ notes user library)
While your opening paragraph is what Apple claims about "other", in my experience I have seen a whole lot more then that in there when the situation has been analyzed. Hence the reason I call it the most useless thing that Apple has forced on us. Really the only way to solve the problem with it are to use another tools to find out what is causing the problem.
Allan

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