Are any of these ludicrous "features" from 2015 fixed in 2016?
Hello,
Forgive my tone, but I'm more than frustrated with the absolute disaster that was Acronis 2015 (as a long-time user of many other versions). It was stripped of features, dumbed-down, and, in the process, the interface was made so obtuse that one had to hunt for simple features (like, for instance, hiding the Restore functions on the Backup tab. Really?!!!). Whether or not Acronis is embarrassed about this product, I was, and ceased to recommend it to anyone until I could see if they could redeem themselves with 2016.
For those of you who were disappointed with the same issues I listed above with 2015, can you tell me if you're happy with 2016? I've paid for Acronis upgrades for many years, but am unwilling to even download and try 2016 for fear of the havok it might create on my system.
As an example of the kind of things I'm wondering about, you can check out this annotated screen shot demonstrating the inaccurate and incomplete info provided in the UI.
Thanks for any help you can offer, and for a chance to share my frustration as a long-time loyal user.
Tridens92,
Unfortunately I can't access the screenshot, could you please publish it once again?
Also, could you please list all features that seem most frustrating in Acronis True Image 2015?
Thanks, Pat, for the feedback...looks like I'll be skipping this year again.
Ulyana, thank you for your question and sorry for the delay. Here's the link to the screen shot again: http://i957.photobucket.com/albums/ae52/Ladybug1992/2016-02-11_19h27_33_zpsjiz24ssz.png
Ulyana wrote: Also, could you please list all features that seem most frustrating in Acronis True Image 2015?
You can check out several other threads I created:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/82118
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/82124
Honestly, there's so much I dislike about the new dumbed-down UI that it would be hard to summarize (but the screenshot and two posts above are a good start). Many other long-time users have given detailed feedback on what has been hidden or pulled from the de-evolving Acronis Backup, and I'm not sure I have anything new to add other than what's above.
I want much more control over my backup / restore jobs and monitoring than the new UI allows. For now, I just am sticking with an older version and use the bootable USB key option to get the old familiar (and far more powerful/useful) windowed interface, where I can select/de-select multiple files with ease, etc. Until Acronis returns to a more traditional UI and adds back much of the corresponding power, I will not be buying any future versions. Such a shame...it used to be a really good/powerful product
Thank you for allowing me the chance to voice my concerns, although I realize that they probably won't make any difference in the direction your product is taking. It's just no longer the product for advanced / tech-savvy users.
Sincerely,
Craig
Tridens. I think a lot of us will agree with your perspective on the change in the interface. Some like it... a lot us long time users, miss the old features (like logging, etc). In the MVP section, it has been discussed and recommended that perhaps Acronis could keep the simplified interface, but also allow for an "advanced" mode that would provide more grainular oversite as well. I do hope that it gets traction and we see some of these requests implemeneted in the next incremental upgrade or annual release. In the meantime, keep sending in feedback through the application as well!
Bobbo, thanks for the reply. I sure hope that idea gets traction too! (the advanced mode). I just received an upgrade offer or 3 licenses + 1 = 4 for less than $50, but even at that price I'm uninterested.
Thanks for your volunteer work here in the forums!
I too loathe the new UI. Ugly, non functional and slavishly copying Microsoft's dumbing down of the Windows UI. Appalling colors mean that the interface is hard to use. Stupidly large icons etc. I returned my 3 copies of TrueImage 2015 and went back to TrueImage 2014 and will remain there until Acronis come to their senses
Ian - completely understand. Long time users seem to want the old interface back (most, but not all). We are working on conveying this through the MVP program and are getting some good responses so I hope we will see some GUI changes in upcoming releases - we'll see. In the meantime, please submit your feedback through the application or your online account so that the developers keep hearing it from others too.
I tried TI2016 and it totally screwed up my system. First, it stopped its initial backup, restarted, then "finished" at about half the size it should have been. I tried again, and it appeared to create a proper backup. I went to the backups to examine the files, and TI was unable to recognize them; neither the partial, nor the "full" could be read. What's more, during the initial backup process, it insisted my HD was NOT C:, but either D: or B:. Yes, B:! Now that was a new one on me. I uninstalled, tried to reinstall, rebooted, and that was all she wrote. CRASH! TI2016 is the absolute worst POC put out by Acronis. I was able find a bootable TI2013 CD I had made and get to a 6 month old backup and restore what TI2016 wiped out. I even tried TI2016 bootable media on another system, and it still wanted to see the HD as anything but C:.
The TI2016 UI is confusing as he77. Until Acronis can get it working again like it should be, I will stick with 2013.
I just wrote a feedback to them about that very issue, Ian.
Every version of True Image seems to try to mimic the default appearance of whatever version of Windows is the most recent at that point... even though that usually is not the version of Windows that is the most popular at that moment. Even if it is, the user may well have changed the default appearance to something he finds more appealing, only to have True Image (and a handful of other programs) stubbornly refuse to respect his wishes.
Maybe instead of overriding the system-defined appearance and controls with a simulated Windows style, Acronis could actually use the system styling like most programs do? Instead of having the program try to look like Windows 8 (which has around 12% market share), it would look like whatever version, with whatever styling, the user has specified?