Try & Decide won't start - how can it be turned off?
Inside this folder:
C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TndLogs
Log files are constantly being written to, every few seconds, with the following text:
[20190319-183849-397][tnd][T] Initialize Tnd API
[20190319-183849-397][tnd][E] Failed to open control device '\\.\Global\TndControl2440': status 2
[20190319-183849-397][tnd][E] Failed to initialize: error 0x2
On my one PC, the logs had already reached more than 600 MB in size.
According to this article:
https://kb.acronis.com/content/46475
Try&Decide can't start if BitLocker is enabled. That must be the problem, because I use BitLocker on all my computers.
Unfortunately, that article doesn't say how to completely disable Try & Decide. I need to prevent this error being constantly written to the logs. It's using up disk space and keeping my laptop busy writing to its SSD (and therefore wasting battery life as well).
How can I stop Try & Decide from trying to start so that these errors stop being constantly written to the log files?
No, I never enabled it. I assume, from your reply, that you don't have the same logs on your PC, or you haven't looked for them before posting.
I only have 3 T&D logs on my computer adding up to just over 8MB in size, so not seeing the same level of logging as you are reporting here.
Grindax, I would recommend opening a Support Case direct with Acronis for this issue with logging and point them to the older ATI 2016 Topic you found.
There are options provided for turning on/off debug logs for various Acronis components but not for Try & Decide - see KB 58243: Acronis True Image: Collecting Debug Logs
It would be good if all such logging could be controlled and just used when needed for diagnostic purposes.
It may be possible to build custom win pe with the MVP winpe builder and use manage-bde -unlock to unlock the drive. Then use the Acronis rescue media to disable T&D (if it is somehow enabled). I have a few logs - not sure what is writing to them either as I have never used T&D.
Rob, the OP has said that T&D was never enabled and that the issue with logging is now fixed after using a registry fix from the other referenced forum topic from 2016.
I have never enabled and find that TnD logs holds 166 files and 273 MB on my system. I am not real concerned about that but I will keep an eye on it. I see what appears to be the same error as the OP in most of these.
Bob, the older forum topic gave a registry import file with the following entries (neither of which exist on my computer!) which turn off the logging for T&D.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Acronis\Tnd] "TraceFormat"=dword:00000000 "TraceOutput"=dword:00000007 "TraceLevel"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Acronis\Tnd] "TraceFormat"=dword:00000000 "TraceOutput"=dword:00000007 "TraceLevel"=dword:00000000
Steve,
I checked and I do not have those reg keys either.
I too am experiencing the same flooding of Tnd logs on both ATI 2019 amd ATI 2020.
After applying the registry settings, I get one log file for each boot. The MVP log viewer has trouble with it. Oddly, the Windows properties show a file size of 2 bytes, but size on Disk is 0 bytes. The view of the folder shows it as 1K. That seems inconsistent.
Bruno, have you tried importing the reg file from here - this will add in the entries for Acronis\TnD to stop the logging. I tested this earlier today after confirming that these reg entries did not exist on my Win 10 laptop running ATI 2020 and looking at the current Tnd logs.
I restarted the laptop and the latest C:\ProgramData\Acronios\TndLogs\ log file has a size of 1kb with no content at all - this after several hours!
Steve, yes I did use the .reg file and got the same result as you. As I mentioned in my post, the new log file was odd in its size (and MVP Log Viewer didn't like it).
I found that modifying the .reg file to set TraceOutput to 0 instead of 7 meant that no file at all was being created. I felt this was even better.
Good find about the TraceOutput setting as 0 instead of 7 Bruno - have modified it for my own system!