Full backup every day

Hi All,
for the last few days for some reason, Time Machine (using Time Capsule) is backing up entire content of my disk (86 GB) once a day. After this is done, it creates incremental backups as it should, but on the next day, again full backup is being taken
I'm not sure what's causing this behavior, I did permission repair but this is still the case
Any help is most appreciated.

DanInDub wrote:
Hi All,
for the last few days for some reason, Time Machine (using Time Capsule) is backing up entire content of my disk (86 GB) once a day. After this is done, it creates incremental backups as it should, but on the next day, again full backup is being taken
Is that on the first backup after powering-up your Mac? If so, the preferences file may be corrupted. Try a "full reset," per #A4 in [Time Machine - Troubleshooting|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum).

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