Purchahse True Image 2016 on 16 June, it stopped working on 14 July because it thinks it's a free trial??!!??
I need help please.
On 16 june I purchased True Image 2016 for $29.99. Everything seeemed normal with the download and install, but for unrelated reasons I was not able to actually attempt to back up to my 2TB drive until 14 July. On 14 July it told me my free 30 day trial was over...!??? 1. I confirmed my credit card was in fact charged $29.99 on 16 June, so it was not a free trial. 2. - it wasn't even 30 days, that would have been 15 July!
Is the price $29.99 per month now? I've been using Acronis for backups since 2011 and until now had been very happy with the various iterations of the product. When I tried to call Acronis they want to charge me for support to fix what seems to be their issue. Unless of course it really is $29.99 per month now, in which case I'm going to look for another backup provider... How can I speak to of correspond with someone at Acronis to get this fixed?
I'm running Windows 10 Professional on a Lenovo laptop if that matters.
Greg Corcoran
Longmont, CO

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Login to your account at www.acronis.com and select Get Support. On the Next Page near the lower right select Conact Support..
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Gregory, I believe you get a 30 day trial of the cloud product with the stand-a-lone purchaes of Acronis. Most likely, the trial has just ended. However, as Thomas mentioned, you can always contact support directly for licensing and/or account issues. We're all just users in the forums (even those of us with MVP badges), so technical support is the way to go for these types of questions.
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Gregory, did you actually enter your serial number and activate ATIH 2016 when you installed it on June 16th, as if not it has been running as a 30-day trial product. You can check this by opening the Account page within the ATIH GUI and look at the activation status. See attached screen shot.
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Thanks folks. Steve, your PNG was very helpful. upon comparing it, closer reading of my registered products going back to 2011, True Image 2016 isn't there now. Cloud is... Maybe I'm a goofball and never finished the registration process even though I thought I did... I know I made a backup to my laptop hard drive and then attempted (unsuccessfully) to send it to Dropbox as a workaround until I could get my 2TB backup drive out of the safe deposit box, so it was working when I made that backup, so it had to be registerd then??
I re-installed/reregistered true image 2016 just now and seems like that fixed it. It's backing up to the 2 TB drive now.
Wait, it just finished? My older versions, on older computers, took hours to make a backup. This took about 3 minutes, but didn't throw an error that I can see. I have to say I liked the dashboard better on the older versions of True Image, I'm not sure how to find the log on this version.
Thanks!
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Gregory, please download a copy of the Log File Viewer app which will allow you to check the log files for your backup tasks.
If your list of registered products shows Acronis True Image 2016 Cloud, then it looks like you have purchased a subscription to the cloud product and not to the ATIH 2016 home product which has a perpetual license.
The key difference in these products is that Cloud will stop working after 30 days if you do not renew your annual subscription, and all your data stored in the Cloud will be deleted. From that point onwards, the Cloud product can only be used in Recovery mode, not to make new backups to local storage.
It is possible that your Cloud backup could take only around 3 minutes if you haven't made many changes since doing a full backup to the Cloud, as ATI uses a delta comparison method to limit the amount of data that needs to be uploaded to the cloud to reflect the changes identified for the incremental backup. The Service Logs will show you if the backup was made successfully, along with having a tick in a green circle in the GUI for the backup task.
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Thanks Steve and company. All set now.
It appears either I never completed the registration process (I'm about 99.9% sure I did register), or the registration got regressed somehow (maybe when Windows 10 did one of its automatic updates the same night)
With the log file available it shows this latest was an incremental backup. I normally only do full backups monthly and didn't realize the schedule I had put in to do full backups also got zapped back to the default full then 5 incrementals weekly when my registration got nuked.
Greg
PS I Finally heard from Acronis customer support in India today regarding this issue. Had to explain to her several times you guys had already diagnosed and corrected the issue.
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