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cant delete old backup within Acronis home 2013

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I have a backup that I cant delete from within Acronis home 2013, I just get an hour glass for ever and have to kill the app. Also, I made a new backup from scratch and it seems to think it is still working off an old backup, it shows 2.5 TB in size which it is only about 0.1 TB, and it keeps giving me errors saying cant find backup nnnnnn, when I say cancel, it says cant find nnnnn, each nnnnn are the names of the old backups that I have actually manually deleted. So its confused and I cant get around this.

any help?

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Maybe clear the slate and start fresh.

1. Open TrueImage and somewhere along the top right, there is an option which should read
Remove from list/All backups
Click this option so the listing of backup tasks
will remove all tasks.

2. Search for a file named
ARCHIVES.XML whiich is stored in the Acronis Database folder.
rename this file to OLD-archives.xml
the program will recreate.

3. Create all new backup tasks and point the new tasks each to their own new storage fodler.

All of the above will start you out without any tasks so you will need to create all new backup tasks.
Nothing we did above deleted or removed any of your actual backup files. These can still be accessed via the "Browse for Backups" option and available for restore same as before.

Your choice as to whether or not to do.