Why is my already full storage?

So I have a MacBook Pro (retina, 15 inch, mid-2015) that I had in December about 4 months ago. I started again, it was my first Mac and I does not transfer data from any other computer. I recently download of images from my go pro, and the computer gave me a heads-up, saying that storage is almost full. At first I didn't believe it because my Mac has 512 GB of storage, and the only big thing that should be in storage was the 30 GB of music I have, and about 20 GB of videos, it's perhaps impossible for me to use this already. Then I checked the storage, and it gave me this

I had lost 350 GB of other and like 100 GB of movies, which is meaningless, because I have only 5 downloaded movies.

Why is my storage already full and that the devil is 'other '?

First of all try to empty your trash.

Then try to download and install OmniDiskSweeper: OmniDiskSweeper

OmniDiskSweeper will sort your files by size and show you where they are. This should allow you to determine exactly what you have on your MBP.

See the following video on OmniDiskSweeper. Using OmniDiskSweeper

See also: OS X: what is 'other' space about this Mac?-Apple Support

Kim

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