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Acronis shutting down laptop after backups

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I have Acronis True Image WD.

It has now started shutting down my laptop every time a backup finishes. I didn't touch anything in the settings and have no idea why it's doing this, but I'd like to stop it from doing so. I found a post from someone with the reverse problem (a person their computer to shut down when a backup finishes) and the advice there was to use the Pre/Post Commands setting, but when I checked this out it had no such command on it. Has anyone got any ideas how to change this setting?

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Sarah, welcome to these public User Forums.

Please ignore any mention of Pre/Post Commands for your situation as they would not help!

I do not have any experience with ATI WD to know how difference it might be to the normal full ATI 2020 application, but you need to check the Advanced Options for your backup task and look for those related to Computer Shutdown to ensure that you do not have the option selected to cause this behaviour?

The above is from ATI 2021 on my laptop and shows the options that can cause the laptop to shutdown when a backup finishes, which I do not have enabled.