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Uninstall 2018 fails on Win 10

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I have 2018 build 12510 installed. Upgrade to the newer build always failed on all 3 machines.

Now it won't uninstall from Programs and Features, says "No Acronis True Image Files Found", but backup runs every day.

I downloaded the 12510 installer and ran it, selected uninstall, this failed too.

Then I ran the "Acroniscleanuptool.exe" which removed it. I did not have to delete any entries from the registry as outlined in the instructions, so presumably the cleanup removed them if they were there.

So, all good? No, no, no. Now my system won't take a VSS copy so I can't run my other backup program. So I restored from backup and now VSS snapshot works again, but of course I have Acronis 2018 back again.

Can anyone shed any light on what the cleanup tool strips out to kill VSS copy?

 

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Gerhard, the Acronis Cleanup tool shouldn't kill VSS by simply running it and not making any manual registry changes.

Do you have any other Acronis products installed?

I would suggest doing a Repair Install of ATI 2018 #12510 per KB 60915: Acronis True Image: repairing program settings then retry installing #15470 over that.

If you want to try doing a manual check after uninstalling ATI 2018 normally (via the Control panel), then check the following places:

Acronis folders.
C:\ProgramData\Acronis
C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Acronis
C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\Acronis
C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\ProgramData\Acronis\
C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\Acronis

HKCU\Software\Acronis
HKLM\Software\Acronis
HKCU\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Acronis
HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Acronis
Left over .sys and .dll files at C:\Windows\System32 and C:\Windows\System32\Drivers.
Look for files starting with snap that may have a number in them.
Something like snapxxxx.dll or snapxxxx.sys.
Where xxxx would represent a build number of True Image.

Be careful of deleting any files in the Windows folders - rename rather than deleting.

I agree that the uninstall tool shouldn't kill VSS but it did - no other changes were made to Win10.

No other Acronis products were installed.

I restored to the previous day and used the Microsoft uninstall tool which found and repaired the registry entries preventing the uninstall (which presumably also caused the upgrade failure), and the ATI2018 is now uninstalled and VSS working.

I found a snapman.sys file in the Drivers directory which has an Acronis signature so I deleted that.