Serious Problem with my time capsule.

When I try to back up to my 500GB time capsule using time machine, it first say preparing backup, then a window pops up saying "Backup Failed: The Backup disk image could not be created." I called the apple store and they said they did not know what to do. Any advice on how I can get these backups working properly?

Try this:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7525140#7525140
worked for me! Good luck

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