Time Machine Pop up

Since very recently I am having a serious time machine problem.
Until now time machine kept silent when I did not have a connection to the time capsule that
hosts my backups.
Very recently (and I have no clue what changed since then) it suddenly gives me a pop-up.
While annoying in its own right, it kills also the presentation mode (and I use this a lot)
in the middle of an ongoing presentation.
This is the corresponding log-data (URLS removed)
17.05.12 10:55:33,234 com.apple.backupd: Attempting to mount network destination URL: afp://xxx
17.05.12 10:55:38,306 com.apple.backupd: NAConnectToServerSync failed with error: 64 for url: afp://xxx
17.05.12 10:55:48,328 com.apple.backupd: Backup failed with error: 18
Failed to connect to server is also the information it gives in the popup.
So, just to clarify: I am not concerned about the failure itself. This only occurs in the correct
situation. I am only concerned about how to stop the pop-up of the error message.
(It should simply display the exclamation mark in the TM icon and that's it - just as it
did before.)
Thanks
Klaus

Thanks for the hint. I checked out his tips (already before posting), but I could not find s.th. that seemed to apply.
I also looked extensively through different forums, but to no avail. I could find very little. One or two that seemed similar but no working solution..

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Message was edited by: cubytus
Message was edited by: cubytus

cubytus wrote:
Hi everyone,
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And you may have some of these without realizing it -- if you ever changed a capital to lower-case, or vice-versa, after a file's initial backup, it's a possibility.
Indeed, I checked directly in the Time Machine tree on the external hard drive with Apple+I keys, and 'cubytus' was not listed in the permissions.
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