Can't connect to existing back-up file

I am having trouble performing a Time Machine back up of my Macbook Pro to my time capsule. I haven't done a back-up in a while, as I usually only do a back-up when I have new photos on my hard-drive. I use the native drive on the Time Machine for my back-ups.
I recently installed an external hard drive off of the time capsule to perform back-ups of a different Macbook as I didn't have enough space on the time capsule for the second computer.
I am now trying to do a back-up, but Time Machine won't find the .sparsebundle on the time capsule file. The only file that is on the time capsule is my existing .sparsebundle, but it keeps saying that there is not enough space on the drive for a back-up. What should I do?
Help!

Thanks for the tips. I tried them, and still didn't have any luck.
Here's the error that I've been getting. My internal HD is:
I have some minor files on there that take up at total of about 450 MB.
I don't know how it would need to back up a size larger than my internal HD. I wonder if it is trying to back-up my changes plus the back-up of the other MBP on the external drive connected to the time capsule.

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