Stuck on "creating a secondary temporary file" in Disk Utility

Hello - I am erasing free space on my Time Capsule, and it has been stuck on "creating a secondary temporary file" for over 14 hours now. Is this normal? If not, what can I do to safely solve the problem? Any advice would be appreciated...thank you!

Look in one of thse 2 locations:
/var/root/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/
/Volumes/YourVolume/.TemporaryItems/folders.UIDNumber/TemporaryItems/
You can use Finder -> Go -> Go to Folder to navigate to these locations.
You could also try using OmniDiskSweeper (free download) to find the huge files, just be careful about what you delete, as it is possible to make your system non-functional if you delete the wrong things. The TemporaryItems stuff is safe enough to delete. It is other huge files you might find that I worry about.
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7402/omnidisksweeper>
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