Potential Solution to Time Machine Back-up Problems

I, like many of you, went out and bought Leopard as soon as it came out and love many of the new features. I was very disappointed that time machine did not work. I seem to have the same problem as many of you in the the preparing time was very long, the back-up was very slow to start and then it would stop without any reason. I would also get the following error message from time to time:
"Time Machine Error - Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while copying files to the backup volume"
I contacted Apple support and after hours of trying one thing and another with senior engineers, it was obvious that this was a problem and they did not have a fix yet. (No disrespect to Apple support, they did the best they could!).
Since my backup would stop after about 10Gb I decided to exclude the majority of my files so that the backup was less than 10Gb and it finally worked. When I included all my files again, I had the same problem. I thought that it must be one particular file or a number of them that was causing the issue.
Using the scientific method of trial and error!!!, I finally established that the file causing the problem on my computer was the iPhoto folder which can be found at:
Macintosh HD/Library/Application Support/iPhoto
If I exclude this folder from my time machine backup it works great!!!
I have more than 300Gb backup up without issue now.
I hope that this works for you to and I would love to hear from anyone who has tried it.
Good luck!!

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