Shrinking my startup disk on MacBook Air

I need to shrink my startup disk on my MacBook Air. I'm getting messges such as, "Your startup disk is almost full." Using OS X 10.9.5

Hi ..
You need to free up storage space.
Click the Apple  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage. Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.
Help here > OS X Tips Where did my Disk Space go?

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    4 GB RAM Not upgradeable
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        BANK 1/DIMM0
            2 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok
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    OS X 10.10.3 (14D136) - Time since boot: 0:14:16
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    APPLE SSD SD0128F disk0 : (121.33 GB)
        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
        Macintosh HD (disk1) / : 120.11 GB (84.39 GB free)
            Encrypted AES-XTS Unlocked
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Hard disk of macbook air 55% full of "other" files

I have a 2010 macbook air with 250Gb drive - my startup disk appears to be almost full. When I check "about this mac" and look at storage it says 134Gb is taken up with "other" files. Please can someone help me get rid of some of these (I've already removed most duplicate files and used both Omnisweeper and mackeeper to find out whats going on. Please help.
Cheers
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Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
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When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
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ODS or GP can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
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Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
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Message was edited by: Jonathan Kussmaul

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