how to reduce other storage on mac

Greetings janie2311,

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities! We understand that your Mac is using a lot of “Other” space on your Mac. Let’s take a look and see what we can do. We're happy to help!

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Other means anything that doesn’t fall in the above categories. Maybe you have a lot of video files, which take up a lot of space.

Also one thing that would appear as Other is Time Machine local snapshots. What is the output of the following command in Terminal:

tmutil listlocalsnapshots /