Help Time Machine Problems

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hello,

i have a 24in imac which is running great. it has leopard of course.:D well for about 5 months time machine was backing up my computer to an external hd just fine until today that is. Now it wont work and i get this message http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8715&stc=1&d=1211829556
and this http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=8716&stc=1&d=1211829625

what shall i do? i thought that it automatically deletes old backups to make room for the new ones. where have i gone wrong. if anyone can help i would really appreciate it. thanks in advance

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hmmm i thought it deletes the older post too. this is strange does anyone know whats going on with this?
 
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This happened to me once after I had just put a very large folder onto my desktop. Once I excluded that folder it backed up fine.

Maybe your computer is using more than 250 GB and it won't fit onto your external?
 
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i have actually excluded a bunch of large folders. it only needs to back up about 180gb and the external hd is a 250gb one. There definitely is enough space
 

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