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How to automatically delete old backups when necessary

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Hi--I'm a refugee from another product, happy to see that Acronis know Win10. ;)

One question: I used to be able to tell backup software to store no more than 10 instances of a full backup. Then, on making #11, it would automatically delete #1 for me from my external drive.

The closest feature I see in Acronis is to get notice when the external drive falls below a certain level of free space. I suppose that works well enough, although I then have to manually delete.

Is there any setting I can use that would automatically delete when storage space is needed, as described in the first full paragraph of this post?

NOTE: I don't bother with incremental, differential. I make a full backup of the drive in question every time.

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Ah..if it matters, Win10 machine, 64bit

When i click on Options i can go to the Backup scheme tab and set options under "Old version cleanup rules:". (See the attched image)

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That did it, many thanks. I missed the link where you get to the next set of options for automatic cleanup. That does it. Thanks again.