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I have a quick question. I've just purchased Acronis True Image Home 2012. Should I uninstall a previous version (2010, I believe) before installing this new version?

Thanks for your help!

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It usually isn't necessary. However, it is a good practice to remove the old version before installing the new one -- there are fewer probs likely that way. Remove ati from the Uninstall Programs in the windows control panel, reboot, then install the new version.

Either way, I'd make a backup before proceeding with the uninstall or install. This way, whatever happens you have a way to easily get back.

Exactly: backup, uninstall, reboot, install the new version.

Safer this way...

Scott Hieber wrote:

It usually isn't necessary.

It seems the installer does not continue if you don't uninstall any previous version. At least on my VM I had a previous build of TIH2012 and was forced to uninstall that version prior to install the RTM of TIH2012.

YO can uninstall on your own or let the 2012 installer do it. Recommendaiton is to do it manually.

I have never seen a comment on what happens when you uninstall an old version and then install a new version with regard to previous backups and schedules etc.

I have 2011 and will be replacing it with 2012...

So let me ask:
1. If I uninstall 2011 including Plus Pack and install 2012 (no Plus Pack, yet) - will my old backups still be recognized by 2012 and restoreable?

2. Will my old schedules still be valid and run as before and continue (add on to) the same chains that 2011 was working on?

3. Basically I want to know if 2012 will continue seamlessly from where 2011 left off with no disruption to my back archives and schedules?

Thanks - I appreciate your feedback.
Lloyd

Lloyd,

When you uninstall, you lose your backup tasks, and schedules, but not your backup files. YOu will be able to restore with 2011 files with 2012.

You may want to try to export your backup settings with 2011, and import them back with 2012. I didn't try this. I don't know if this works.

You can also try to simply install on top of 2012. Weirdly, when I installed 2012 on top of 2011 (without anti-virus on) it worked much better thant the first time where, following time-tested Acronis experience, I have uninstalled 2011 first. Note that the first time I didn't turn off my anti-virus. So I am not sure which factor made the difference (leaving the old version, or turning the anti-virus off).

At any rate, make sure you do a backup before upgrading (that I did, and it saved me when the first upgrade failed completely).

Make a backup, jsut in case.

Method one: Uninstall the pluss pack and install new plus pack if you are getting one. The old plus pack won't work with ati2012. Install 2012. Everything might be fine--it might be seamless. Or, ATI might treat the old backup files as being from different or unknown-settings tasks and will treat the existing backups as being from different tasks as the ones you edit or create. You might have delete old tasks and create new ones -- if so , move backups to a new loaction before deleting the old tasks.

Method two: If you have any install, startup or running problems after using Method One, then unintall ati and any plus pack, run the cleaner and then install ati2012 from scratch. As Pat says, you won't lose your existing backups but you will need to create new tasks. Note that ATI will probably treat the old backup files as being from different tasks as the new ones you create.

A lot of us long-time ati users just go right to Methgod two.