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Acronis not deleting old backups

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I am in the Acronis Backup web interface (v 12.0.2624), and it has backups from January of 2018 that it has retained. These backups are no longer valid, and need to be removed. When using the 'X' to delete the backups, the system seems to halt, and never deletes them. The interface switches to the 'Deleting' message, but it just sits there. I have left it sit for over 45 minutes on one backup, and it's done nothing. This is causing problems because I have 6 outdated backups at 1TB a piece taking up hard drive space that I need to use for other things. 

I cannot delete them from file explorer because it tells me the acronis service is using them. 

How can I delete these?

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Hi Lori,

The issue should be investigated with help from our support team. According to symptoms there is some process holding the files which is not normal - investigation will be required to find out which exact process is keeping lock on the files (it could be one of the backup agents for example).

Thank you.