Mds Process takes a lot of CPU and TimeMachine is blocked

I have TimeMachine activated on an external HD. Everything works fine and some other external HDs are backup with TimeMachine to the TimeMachine Drive. When I now activate SpotLight for my internal Macintosh HD the TimePachine Process stops and is never going on. When I kill the mds process TimeMachine is going on with backUp. Next try from TimeMachine and I have same problem again.
When I move Macintosh HD to private area from Spotlight TimeMachine is working fine. Now I can't search in Mail, Macintosh HD and some more unfunny things. It would be great when everything works fine again.
I was checking the access right and everything was fixed or there was nothing to fix. I checked the Macintosh HD by using the Recovery Partition and everything is fine.
When I now remove the Macintosh HD again from the privat area of spotlight mrs will take very fast 200% CPU on my iMac and next TimeMachine Process ist blocked again.
It is not a question of time. I ran mrs now for 7 days and it takes always 100-200% CPU in top and I stopped TimeMachine during this time. My Macintosh HD has 500GB and the TimeMachine HD 2TB and it has 1TB free space.
I stopped TimeMachine, initialized the HD, reactivated TimeMachine and everything was archived as long as I had Macintosh HD in privat area of Spotlight.
At the moment I don't have any idea what I can do. Is there any possibility to see what mrs is doing when it takes so much CPU which folder or file the process trys to process?
So what can I do?

Problem solved...
I found a folder I deleted and problem was solved.

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