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Consolidation never happens

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I have Trueimage Home ver 11 build 8101, and I'm using 64 bit Windows 7

I'm running differential backups to a backup location with a 'size quota' of 75GB. The help files tell me that TI will consolidate backups when the quota is exceeded.

But it doesn't happen.. there are 228GB of backups in the folder at the moment.

TI ver 11 seems to have no options to configure the consolidation, or to make it run manually.. I've clicked everywhere I can think of, and there are no options relating to it when you set up a new task. It's a bit of a mystery.

I never tried to use this feature when I had Vista, so I don't know if it worked before.

Do I have to upgrade to make it work? Or am I missing something obvious? I know I can just delete some of the differentials in the meantime.

Thank you!

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Sorry.. fixed it myself.. discovered that you can't just point the backups at the folder you designated as a backup location; you have to find them in their own special list in the folder tree.

An alternate suggestion would be to use Chain2Gen listed in my signature index below. This offers lots of choices in backup retention.