Why do I have 44GB of "other" storage

I have been trawling the internet for weeks trying to find out why I have 44GB of "other" storage on my mac, before we start I KNOW what "other" storage is and I don't want someone "answering" my question with a link to something that tells me what it is. My mac is a MacBook Air (early 2014 model) 4gb ram, 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5 and I'm running yosemite 10.10.2. I have been on with apple support (not the phone or in store because i'm sure they will try and make me pay for something somewhere however if a fix can't be found i will take it in) furthermore as I said i've read many many articles and forum post that say they have a "fix" and they don't fix anything. Its been a problem for about two months now, I can't remember exactly when it happened because i never used to check my hard drive space until it told me I was "low", since then I've uninstalled a game or two to free up space which I didnt want to do but with a 128GB HD what can you do?
If anyone can tell me a way to cut down this storage without using an app I have to pay for or without using an app at all it would be great

OmniDiskSweeper and Grand perspective do not delete files. They simply are tools to show what you have on your MBA and you have to take action if you want to delete data or transfer the data to an external HDD.
The title OTHER is not very descriptive and some people get nervous as a result. One should not focus on the title of the category, but the actual files that may be included by the OSX in that category. Based on your last post, the game that you deleted was vied by the OSX as an OTHER file.
Ciao.

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First Try a Restore from Backup... But... if the Large Other Persists, that is an Indicator of Corrupt Data in the Backup... Then a Restore as New is the way to go...
Details Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
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No need to start a new post asking the same thing.
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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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Back up all data now.
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☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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