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I have just installed trueimage 2016 and created a recovery bootable usb.
I then made a file backup of some test files with installed trueimage and then restored these with the bootable recovery on usb.
The files where restored but windows 10 flagged up that i had to take administator control over these files to take full control. Not all the security flags seem to be backed up or restored. I was owner of these file with microsoft account but not when files are restored.
If this is the case will a full pc or disk restore cause problems with opening all the files.

extra bit:- the installed trueimage restores the files with correct security flags(+ owner) if restored to original position but will not restore security owner flag if restored to a new location.

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I ran a test using your scenario and found I did not experience the same issue. I backed up 2 files using the installed 2016 app build 5576 and restored using the boot recovery media of the same version. Both files permissions were identical to that backed up and completely accessible. I ran Win 10 Insider Preview edition build 10532 as an OS. Files were restored to different location than were backed up from.

When you say restored to a different location what di you mean exactly? In my case I restored the files back to my documents folder under my user. I did not try to restore to a location not under my user profile folder. Had I done that I might have had your same result. You might wish to experiment with this.

At any rate it appears to me that if you restored these files to somewhere other than your user account folder your problem is related to Windows 10 new security features than to that of the Acronis app.

Thanks for your reply, I agree that if i backup a file from my userprofile area and then restore with bootable usb, then everything works fine.
But I do store a lot of images in folders that are on the root of disk and not in my user profile, so when i come to restore these stating the drive to restore to the images are all restored to root of disk and not the folders. These images have correct security flags, but if i first create the original folder to restore these files in, the folder security flags have to be set and as far as i can tell the images security flags are still ok.

My concert here is also that the original folder with images in, when backed up only the images are restored, NO original folder.

Also would this security flag issue arise if i backed up all of pc, or one particular partition etc.

If you restore individual files then no the original folder those files where in will not be restored. You do the option to restore to the original path however which would place them back to the original folder.

On a full PC backup you should not experience the security issue.