How can I fix my Time Machine? I keep getting "The disk image "Mike's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle" is in use."

My Time Machine won't back up. I keep getting: "The disk image “Mike’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is in use. Try ejecting the disk image."
I've Googled and tried different suggestions from forums, but nothing works. Most of the suggestions are too old anyway. It's doing my head in!
I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro running Yosemite 10.10.2.
Thanks ~ Mike

See if Pondini can help http://pondini.org/TM/C12.html

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