Start up drive full on 4 week old MBA

Hello,
I received a message ths morning regarding my start up drive being almost full. When I have looked at the breakdown I have around 16GB of photos, music & Apps & 96GB of other. What is this other & where has it come from? Does anyone have any tips about how to find it (without the use of complex programmes).
I have emptied my Trash & the Safari Cache.
Thanks!!

Hi,
I've just run the disc inventory X & I have a couple of odd things
Mail Message @ 79.6 GB 8641 files
Documents @ 8.3GB 80229 files
Do you think this is the time machine back up? I've deleted all my old messages as they've come through & I only have about 3 documents on.
I tried disabling the local back ups, via terminal using the command
sudo tmutil disablelocal
It doesn't seem to have made any difference though (not sure if I used it right??)
Thanks for your help so far.

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