Migration assistant can't access Time capsule back up

Hello,
my old Macbook pro died yesterday and I bought a new one. I am trying to migrate all my files from a Time Capsule/Time Machine back up using the migration assistant. However it does not work: I get the message
"The back up cannot be opened. Make sure that all of your network devices are connected and turned on. It appears that this backup is already in use. Make sure the backup is not currently mounted by another machine and try again."
I can connect of course to my Time Capsule, and see the sparsebundle file.
What should I do?
I am always on Leopard both on the old and the new Macs.
Thanks!

So far I have made an improvement: I have managed to unmount all users using the Airport utility, and now it seems the Migration assistant would be working...
More news soon.
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I have been using a 2TB time capsule for about a year and a half now. Every day for 18 months everything was being backupt. Everything smooth no problem.
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Woxxxxxx wrote:
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Mr. Zooot wrote:
Time Machine can not complete the backup "Time Capsule"
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