No space. Two sparsebundle files--can I delete one?

There are two Macbooks backing up a Time Capsule on our wireless network. My mother noticed an error message on her laptop saying there's not enough space for Time Machine to perform a back up. I took a look at the Time Capsule, and sure enough, there's only 8 gigs left, even though in theory there should be plenty of space. (By my estimation maybe 100 gigs or so.)
I scanned my Time Capsule with GrandPerspective and noticed that my laptop has two sparsebundle files on the Time Capsule. One hasn't been updated since March. The only thing I can think of is that In the Spring I changed settings in Time Machine to back up a folder I hadn't backed up before. The other sparsebundle file is current to today.
Can I somehow get rid of the older one without causing too much trouble?
Thank you!

If you don't plan to access any of the data on the older "sparsebundle" file, I'd delete it. That will probably take a few minutes.

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