CLOSING - ATI home 2016 - have I gone backwards with this upgrade?
Hi
I've just upgraded from home premium 2014 to home 2016.
Initial reaction is that I wish I hadn't.
My 2014 system had quick and easay ways of clearing the list of backups and rebuilding it.
With 2016 I've had to do this one by one!!!!!!!!
Where do I find how to configure backups? e.g full or incremental?
I tried to verify one backup - I got no response, no progress bar - how am I supposed to know what is happening?
I'm having trouble seeing where / how I can put my own name on a backup instead of this "entire pc (desktop- hb32am6?
Is there a settings somewhere (as oppoed to tools)?
Any help woul;d be appreciated. I'm reluctant to go redeeming the 30-day money back guarantee. ATI has saved me a few times.
thank you.

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I think the same. I have been a loyal customer all the way back to version 6.0 along with partition majic and disk director.
I have asked for a refund. I also had to downgrade from Windows 10 back to Windows 7 because the lastest Acronis version I have and liked was TI Home 2010 and Disk Director 11. Neither product works with Windows 10.
Eventually I think they will get TI 2016 fixed. When they do I will purchase 2016 or whatever version is reliable and funtional. I recall the same issue with version 8 and later versions. TI Home 2010 is very reliable as is Disk Director 11.
Note: I was total confused with the restore tab when all I could see were files by date rather than my name. When I renamed files they still displayed by date rather than by name and date.
Same for comments. Never could find my comments for each file created with TI 2016.
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I have a number of industrial XP systems still running TI 9.1 with Universal Restore, and recently had to swap to a different model PC on one of them. It was so easy and straightforward, it really brought home how far astray 2016 has gone.
TI9.1 may be missing sector backups, Win7 and beyond compatability, and support of newer hardware (I had to use an older USB disk instead of my newer USB3 RAID box), but it was reliable and fast. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do on my new Win7 boxes. Maybe 2016 will be working before long.
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Not sure what all is in the Apricorn Software that is supplied with their cloning kit. As I recall years past when I bought their cloning kit that it resembled a lite version of Acronis. You might want to get a kit and see if it will meet your needs. I used the cable in their current kit when I cloned an SSD for my new Lenovo T450s. Slam dunk reliable. Couldn't get any easier.
Or you might try to get your hands on Symantec Ghost 12. I used Symantec Ghost 9 or 10 and it was pretty good - reliable and with most of functionality of the version of Acronis at the time but without the bugs. I went over to Symantec because of a lot of issues with whatever version of Acronis existed at the time. Problem is that Norton quit at version 12. You can't but it anymore unless you can find an unopened version on eBay.
Whatever you do - don't waste your time on Paragon. Ticked off at TI 2016 and based on good reviews for Paragon on the web I purchased the 2015 version.
IMO it was worse than TI 2016 so I asked for a refund.
IMO, but it won't happen, is that Acronis should sell a lite version that can create a system image, can clone, and do simple file backups. If users want more they can buy the full blown version with all of the bugs. Kind of like what Seagate used to supply with some of their hard drives.
They could call it True Image Lite.
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WD has a free, light version of TI that installs if you have at least one WD disk installed. I'm not sure what major version it's based on (they list the minor version as 6126), but it supports everything up to Windows 10.
Google wd acronis for the link.
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Have been using ATI for almost 15 years, since version 7.0, but Acronis has been going downhill ever since 2013. Try Macrium 6.1, much faster than ATI, automated Win PE support. restore time under 3minutes versus 35-45 minutes with ATI.
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Hi
Thanks to all who replied. Obviously I'm not alone in thinking successive versions of TI are (somewhat) retrograde.
TI 2016 is what it is.
I'll run with it for a few weeks and then decide whether to stay with it or move to another product.
I'm closing this thread now.
Thanks again for the replies.
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