Disk Not Large Enough

I have been using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for a long time. This morning I got a message, that Time Machine will not back up because the file size is 150 GB and the space available is 9GB. What can I do? I thought Time Machine would make space on the disk as necessary. Thanks.

Curt Evoy wrote:
I have been using Time Machine with a Time Capsule for a long time. This morning I got a message, that Time Machine will not back up because the file size is 150 GB and the space available is 9GB. What can I do? I thought Time Machine would make space on the disk as necessary. Thanks.
Is there anything else on your TC besides TM backups?
Are other Macs backing up to it?
What are the sizes involved -- how much data is on your system (the +Estimated size of full backup+ under the exclusion box in TM Preferences > Options), and how large is the TC's disk?
If the TC isn't well over twice the size of the data it's backing-up, that may be the problem. If Time Machine is doing a new, full backup for some reason (such as a very long time between backups, as Musicwind suggests), there won't be room. Time Machine will never delete your last remaining backup, so to do a new one will require enough space for two full backups, plus 20% for workspace.
If in doubt, Click here to download the +Time Machine Buddy+ widget. It shows the messages from your logs for one TM backup run at a time, in a small window. Navigate to the backup in question, then copy and post all the messages for that run here (although if there's a long series of backup deletions, please skip most of that).

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