Documents created post-Backup are still present after Recovery
I feel that I've entered the Twilight Zone here. This morning I had a problem updating one of my programs, after which I created a few test documents. The problem caused me first to try a Restore Point but when that didn't solve the problem I resorted instead to doing a Recovery to my earlier morning Backup which occurred before I started fiddling with the update. This Backup was an Incremental, the 2nd since the original Full in the string. So I rebooted the PC to my ATI2019_18100.iso file, and from there did a "Validate first then Recover" of the OS partition, the C: partition, only, since the computer was otherwise booting OK i.e. I left the MBR and Windows and Dell Factory Restore parts alone.
When I returned to the PC the Acronis dialog awaited me "Recovery succeeded" and so I rebooted to Windows and everything looked fine EXCEPT:
The documents I had created while I was having problems are still there!?!?!?! I had recovered to an earlier time before those were created!
I have no idea how this could happen. Clearly the Recovery operation did work, since the program I'd been having trouble with was working again, and I see too that all my Restore Points are gone, since Acronis doesn't keep those as part of a backup. But how ON EARTH can the test docs I made post-Backup still be present, and open properly? No they weren't on Dropbox or someplace else apart from the C: drive that the Restore operation wouldn't affect them.
The only thing that I can think of that could cause this is if NonStop Backup were in place, but clearly the Incremental backup that I recovered to is dated a couple of hours before the docs-in-question were created.
Any ideas or do I just chalk this one up to a rip in the Space-Time Continuum???
Hi Ian, thanks for responding. No I don't have or use OneDrive, though I do have all of Apple iCloud, Dropbox, and Resilio Sync, and while the most likely culprit would be Resilio I do only have Read-Only permissions at this computer's peers, and the logs don't indicate any copy-back activities.
It has to be something like that though and I will keep looking for possibilities.
Obviously the event freaked me out, and I spent most of yesterday trying to fix the program problem I had i.e. the Recovery ended-up being a waste of time and resources (and left-behind all of my Restore Points).
Some days I think I should give-up this computer addiction I have, but my life is too intertwined with it!