I can no longer access my Time Capsule Data

I have a 2TB TimeCapsule connected wirelessly to my home Network via an Airport Express.
I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro.  I keep my documents on there, so I can access them from either device. 
Today when I tried to access my documents frm the iMac, it wouldn't let me, and just kept closing down Finder.  It works fine from my MacBook Pro still though?
The only change I made to my setup in the last 24 hours is I connected my iMac to the Airport Express via an Ethernet cable to allow faster streaming.  I have tried going back to wireless connection as it was before, but it still doesn't allow me to access my files.  Interestingly Time Machine Backup from my iMac is still working?
Any thoughts?
Many thanks

Sad to report that unplugging and re-plugging the hard drive did not help. I had high hopes!
Un-mounting and re-mounting the external hard drive didn't help either.
I've moved on to deleting the time machine preferences per another suggestion in another thread - still no luck.
I continue to get the Making Backup Disk Available warning in the Time Machine Preferences window as the little progress bar spins for 20+ minutes. The whole time, I can hear the external hard drive clicking and chirping like it's being accessed- then the Time Machine preference window reports the same past warning: *The backup disk image “/Volumes/300GB BACKUP/myname’s Mac mini_00254bb40536.sparsebundle” could not be accessed (error 109)*
Off to cruise some more forums for a possible fix - suggestions continue to be welcome!
Jamie

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