Running out of storage on my macbook mid 2012

I had to delete a Yosemite partition I created on my mid 2012 macbook pro because the 16gig available filled up fast.
I check my HD and it was almost full to capacity, it shows I had 2.2 TB of photos and 1.5 TB of audio.
I don't know if this photos and music kept adding each time I sync my iphone or each time i log on to Facebook.
Anyway I would like to FREE UP THE SPACE can someone tell me how, and would I need to have 3plus TB of external DH to do this, or what??????

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

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Winston Churchill wrote:
Welcome to the Apple Community.
iCloud can't be used for storage in that way. I believe sugarsync allows you to keep files online without having to have them on your hard drive.
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i am running out of storage on my ipad. i don't think i have a lot of stuff on my pad but my pad is telling me different. i recently did the upgrade on my pad, did that take up storage????
i really don't need all 2000 photos or 8 purchased videos on my pad or on my phone for that matter. so my question.
can i store all my photos and purchased videos on my macbook pro only? then if i want to watch a video sync it back onto my pad watch it and then put it back on my mac? same thing with my photos. maybe only keep a few on my pad and phone.
i do have icloud but really don't understand the full deal. but i don't need all the stuff that is on my mac on my pad and phone too.
thanks so much for all and any help.

thats my problem, i don't know how to do that. with the cloud, which i want to keep so that i can keep the "find my ipad, iphone and mac everything goes on all three.
if i plug my ipad or iphone in it just duplicates what is already on there.
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In my email, I received a message today with the subject
You will run out of storage when your downgrade takes effect
I looked in my account and don't see anywhere where I've set it to downgrade. It's still set at the correct level. I checked the credit card to make sure it hadn't expired.
Any thoughts of what else I could check?
Here's the email:
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Unless you take action before your downgrade takes effect, backups to iCloud will stop, and apps will no longer be able to save documents to iCloud. You can either free up storage or cancel your downgrade to keep your current storage plan for another year.
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2.
Tap Account.
3.
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The iCloud Team

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~Lyssa

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A5. http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
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iOS: Import personal photos and videos from iOS devices to your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4083
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