Suddenly there is not enough space on my 1TB Time Machine Backup HDD allthough my MAC HDD ist with 0,5TB only half full! Time Machine wants 2 TB space.

My Backup HDD for Time Machine has 1TB, same as my MAC-HDD. The Mac HDD is only .5TB full. But suddenly Time Machine wants 2 TB of space for the backup, allthough I have erased all earlier backups and the HDD is empty. I've activated file vault, but some time ago, so I don't think that's the reason.
I also excluded Windows 7 on Parallels.
What happened???
I'd appreciate some help.

What version of OSX are you on?
It sounds like you may have a directory problem on your internal HD.  Verify it, per #6 in Using Disk Utility.
Just to be sure the TM drive is really empty, erase it, per #1 there.

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