Need help with 'Other' on my Mac hard drive

Hi all, someone help me with this problem? Ive read previous support tickets in an effort to get to this sort, but my problem seems to be growing.

S my mac is as follows:

OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

iMac (21.5 inch, mid 2011)

Intel Core i5 at 2.7 GHz

20 GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Macintosh HD

My problem is the 'Other' part of the HD memory has been slowly growing in recent weeks, Ive has cleared out all the obvious places, course trashed all my movies, edited down from my apps I don't need, removed tons of photos, today I deleted my main cache, must have been more than 100 topics there alone.

But still 'other' continues to grow and I got my first warning tonight that my boot drive is almost full... currently; there I have 407,9 MB of free space on my Mac hard drive.

Can someone walk me through the steps to get that back at all?

Many thanks in advance,

Malcolm

Have you read and used OS X: what is 'other' space about this Mac?-Apple Support?

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