Storage space on Macbook Air not adding up

Hi everyone,
Recently I noticed that when I go to about this mac and look at storage I see this:
The numbers don't add up at all! Plus, before I deleted all photos from iphoto, the photo section was at 1.5 TB!!!
I don't have any photos or movies from what I can tell on my computer (searched .jpeg and .mov). Not sure why it is saying I have so much space dedicated to them.
Don't know why this is happening but it is really bugging me...
I have a 2013 Macbook Air 11.6" and works great, just confused as to why the numbers are way off.

Yea, . . .That is all kinds of wrong. I have witnessed this many times during the Developer Previews. This should fix it:
Open the Spotlight system preferences.
Go to the Privacy tab.
Drag your hard drive to the list to add it.
Select your drive, and then click the minus button to remove it.
When you complete these steps, if you check the storage calculations before indexing is complete, then you will see the About This Mac window progressively update and change as more files are added to Spotlight’s index. Therefore, wait for the Spotlight index to fully rebuild (the progress of which can be seen by opening the Spotlight menu) before you check the storage use in the About This Mac window again.
Since this bug seems to still be active in the final release, I would highly suggest Kappy's answer for more reliable data.

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