User Template file in system library

On a Macbook Air with normal use, how big should this file be?  On mine it is around 7gb and I am constantly being told the startup disc is full.  I am coming to a standstill.  This is the largest file.  What do I do, because I also can't access it?
Thanks,
Simon

Never delete anything at all from the System Folders. As a general rule, never delete anything whose purpose you don't understand.
Can you give us the precise address of this folder, using a slash character '/' to describe a new folder
HD/Applications
for instance, is The Applications folder at the root of the HD. It's best lest there be confusion...
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do.
Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.

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