HT3275 The backup disk image "...Pro.sparsebundle" is already in use.

Please Help,
My Time Machine is not backing up and for 3 weeks I've ignored the popups but they happen so so often.
I really want to back up though, that is why I sold the Airport Extreme
Can anyone help
my error message always says:
The backup disk image “/Volumes/Time Capsule/Kyle’s MacBook Pro.sparsebundle” is already in use.
Thanks,
KyleMain53

Reboot the Time Capsule..
Or reboot the whole network. This is just really poor networking on the part of Mountain Lion.
It has simply lost connection to the TC drive.
C12 http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html
Read down through the list of issues.. this is popping up 20times a day.

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