How to clean Acronis home page which shows names of deleted tib files
I have been deleting old tib files. But whenever I open Acronis program, the names of deleted, old files appears on the left side of the panel. How can I clean up those files? It is annoying and confusing.
It sounds like you're manually deleting backup files in Windows file explorer and not in the Acronis console?
If so, Acronis has no idea what you've done. You should use the options in the console to either remove old versions of an existing backup, or completely remove that backup if you want to remove them from the computer.
If the backup task is valid still, but you manually deleted some of the .tib files, you need to run a validation using the validate item. Then, when it will prompt to locate or ignore each missing file and you need to select ignore for each one until it's done validating. That will at least get the database updated for the manual changed you did outside of Acronis. In the future, just delete from within Acronis to keep the database updated directly.
Thanks Bobbo_3C0X1,
I appreciate your explanation. Yes. You are correct that I deleted tib files from File Explorer. That was the problem.
I will follow your instruction which makes sense. I have a question for you. In your first diagram, I see "Clean up versions..." which is one of the drop down menu. . What does that do? I do not see that menu in 2018 Acronis which I am currently using.
Jorge, the option to 'Clean up versions' was introduced with ATI 2019, so will not be seen for your 2018 version.
If deleting files outside of ATI 2018, then you should do a Validate for the task that created the deleted files if this is still shown in the GUI - Validate will show an error for each missing file, where you need to click on the Ignore option given - this will then update the information held in the internal database for that task.
Jorge,
Yeah, the clean up versions is new in 2019 (https://kb.acronis.com/content/61844). This is a nice feature that allows you to clean up specific versions of an existing backup, versus arbitrarily deleting the entire backup scheme and or backup scheme and backup files that the "delete" option does. It does have limitations still, for instance, if using an incremental backup, you can't just pick and choose to delete any incremental in the chain you want. If you pick a file, all files that came after it will also be selected automatically since they wouldn't work anymore. Differentials are independent of each other so you can pick and choose as you want with them.
Here's an example of the 2019 "clean up versions" in action:
When you do the regular "delete" in Acronis (which is available in 2015-2019), you have the option to "Remove" just the settings (remove it from the console, but keep the actual backup .tib files), or "Delete Entirely" (remove the settings and the .tib files associated with it).
