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ATIH2016 fails on main backup last couple of days and now GUI won't even show.

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My main backup (of my computer) started to fail the last two days claiming target drive running out of space. This has been working faultlessly in ATIH2015 and since 12/9/2015 when I upgraded to ATIH2016. I have 4 other backups that still work. I can't launch the GUI to change anything. TrueImage.exe shows in task manager but there is nothing onscreen. I have reinstalled over the top but still can't get the GUI to show even after reboots. The failure log is attached.

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Show us a screen capture picture of your storage folder showing.

"E:\My Backups\My Daily Backup\My Daily Backup.tib"

Be sure and show the size of the tib files.

How much free space do you have on drive E?

Also, please show us a capture of the backup scheme on the task which creates this file.

Since I was unable to view the GUI of ATIH2016, I have had to revert back to ATIH2015.
I also changed to a larger HD (1 TB - 931 GB formatted) but it appears now that step was unnecessary.
The free space after all backups were performed is 767 GB.
The total of all four backups is just 164 GB which will happily fit on the original 500 GB backup drive.
I found multiple *.tib files in the My Daily Backup folder which explains why the disk ran short of space.
The reason for the multiple *.tib files is unclear as the tasks are single version tasks.
The questions I have to ask are why was I unable to view the GUI of ATIH2016 and why were multiple backup files created causing a problem?
These problems only surfaced after having upgraded but not immediately.

If you decide to try 2016 again, I would first run the 2015 TI Cleanup utility(my signature link 4 below) and then do a fresh install with all new taks.
Each task should have its own unique name--not the same name used on multiple tasks.l