"Other" category and Disk Usage

Hi, could someone please tell me if the "Other" category (in About my Mac) is too large, or if this is normal.
It would also be great if someone could explain what is making up these 17GB.... it seems too large. There is nothing in the Trash, nor in the iPhoto trash.
I have re-indexed my HDD/SSD, just before I took the screenshot, as has been suggested in these forums.
The Pictures folder (21 GB) is quite close to the combination of Photos and Movies indicated in "About my Mac" (17GB and 5.7GB), so this seems ok.
iTunes music section shows 10.6GB compared to 12GB in the Music folder and 13GB in "About my Mac." I don't believe this is due to files being deleted from iTunes, but being kept, as I always select the "Move to Trash" option. My iTunes library contains no apps, TV shows, iTunes U or Movies. I have only 1 iPhone back up - I back this up to iCloud.
Time Machine back-ups I do manually (Time Machine = Off), so there should not be any temporary back-ups on the HDD/SSD.
Adding up what is shown in Finder does not match the 'Overall space' (95GB) shown in "About this Mac → Storage."
Why is this?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Some other possibly handy background info:
No data was transferred using Migration Assistant;
The MacBook came with OS X Mavericks (I think 10.9.3)

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