Test Version of TI 2017 deletes TI 2016
I have a problem with T&D in TI 2016. On the advice of the support I tested, if this problem is solved with TI 2017 and installed therefor a testversion of TI 2017. As the problem is also not solved inTI 2017 I deinstalled TI 2017 with the result, that TI 2016 (where I had a fully licended Version), is also lost.
The reason : TI 2017 is installed as an Update of TI 2016 and not as a parallel version.


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I solved the issue, I restored the System from a backup only some days old.
My contribution is more a warning to other users.
Nevertheless thanks for your advice.
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I've never seen Acronis install as a parallel application side-by-side where you could have say 2015 and 2016 running simulataneously - it's always been an upgrade when you install a newer version and there is no direct downgrade path. Same behavior as all of the other backup productes i have used and/or tested and I believe this is common behavior in many software applications.
Glad you were able to restore from a backup though. Backups are great for exactly this puropse. I rely on them over try and decide and always take a backup before a major change that might result in negative or unintended behavior. Just restore the backup and it's like it never happened. With faster SSD's like the NVME PCIE hard drives, it can be almost as fast to restore an OS from a backup these days as Try & Decide.
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This is definitely by design. While simple disk-imaging does not require this, more complex tasks would do so. If for no other reason than the amount of system resources and the possibiliy of clashes between different versions trying to do a task at the same time.
Ian
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