I freed up space on my hard drive now TC won't back up.

I have a 2TB HD and a 2TB TC.
My HD had gotten down to around 250GB free when I cleaned some items out and got it up to about 280GB free.
Since I did that, my TC will no longer backup. It says it needs 2.06TB and only 2TB is available.
The free space on my HD has been at 260GB or below for weeks if not months now with no backup problems, so why did freeing up 30GB start this issue?
I've even erased the TC disk completely to start a brand-new backup and it still won't work.

Do a verify of the disk.. as something is very wrong..
Perhaps a reset of TM and point it at the TC again.
A4 and A5 here
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

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