TS1550 timemachine won't backup because sparsebundle already in use

timemachine stopped backing up because sparsebundle already in use how do i correct this?

I was having this same problem. I had turned on an old Macbook briefly and then turned it off. It must have been doing a backup at the time, because my newer Macbook Air could no longer do a backup because the sparsebundle was in use.
I followed crandyhill's suggestion above, and that solved everything. I had to open Airport Utility 5.6, click on manual setup, click on the disks tab, click on disconnect all users.
That solved the problem, and now my Air is doing regular backups again.

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