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What is Acronis telling me?

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I'm a bit confused by something I'm seeing on the screen. New user - sorry!

When I first installed the program, I selected one large folder and ran a backup. I was curious to see how long it took, in order to have some guidance about when to schedule backups. That's done, and the folder in question shows under "This computer" on the left side of the Acronis window, along with E:, the external disk which received the backed up files.

If I click the down arrow, I'm offered a DELETE option, but I'm not sure what will be deleted.

- The backup plan for that folder? Am I simply telling the program not to back up that folder next time?

- The backed up files on the external disk?

- (Unimaginably) the original files on C: disk?

There's no hint. And maybe I missed something when I read the help files. What will "DELETE" do? There's a screen shot attached to this post.

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If you click on delete you will be offered two choices. Delete everything or just delete the backup task. See attached file.

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OK, but does that also remove the folder from the NEXT backup, or just the "historical incident" from the last backup?

If you delete the task and the files then everything is gone. There will be no next backup and you will have to create a new backup task. If you just delete the backup task, the files will remain and the next backup will not occur. You will have to create a new backup task.

Doug, the Delete / Remove option only deals with the backup task and files that are created by that task, it will never touch any of the source data you choose for that task.

If you take the option to only remove the settings, then the task name entry under 'My Computer' will be removed along with any history of backups held by Acronis.

If you take the option to delete everything, then both the task name, task history and any available backup files that are accessible will be deleted by Acronis.  

Thanks very much. Historically, I've never had reservations about clicking mysterious things in apps because there are almost always hints of some kind. But with the advent of cell phone apps, even desktop software is becoming too....something. Cute? iPhone-ish? I don't know.