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why mounting backup let me recover files I expect I deleted before last Incremental?

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I found that at some point recently my 
C:\Users\<username>\Pictures
had become empty.  Happily I have restored it from backup (by mounting it in Windows), but I'm perplexed by what I found.

Because when I mounted the backup I found the folder was full even though I'm 99.9% sure that the folder was empty when last night's Incremental was run.

** Details **

I create my backups using ATI 2020 recovery media on a USB drive.  I make Base backups weekly.

I set out hoping to restore the most recent Incremental on which the folder was full, by Mounting each Incremental in Windows.  But I can't see any way to do that now that each backup.tibx now contains both the Base, and 6 Incrementals.

So all I could do was mount this week's backup.tibx which contained a Base plus Incrementals.  And I don't understand how, when I did, the empty folder was full because I expect that it was empty when last night's Incremental was run, since looking in that real folder was practically the first thing I did this morning.  So I would have assumed that the 'conglomerate' backup.tibx would mount with it empty.

Is there no way to get snapshots with ATI 2020 in Windows for how each Incremental looks?  (Edit:  I just found a FAQ which suggested that I could if I were creating my backups in Windows.  Maybe I should start doing that, even though I'm liking doing it with the recovery media.)

(Incidentally, I've tried to restore files from the recovery media and for some reason that fails.)

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When doing the restore, you need to use the calendar panel option to pick the particular restore point (aka incremental slice back to the initial full backup).  The restore points should show as highlighted dates which when selected will show one or more time stamps highlighted according to whether one or more backups were created on that date.

Thank you very much Steve, with that encouragement I stumbled onto it.  

In summary, I discovered "Add existing backup" in the menu for "Add backup".

** Details **

My Backup | Recovery tab had been empty--I guess because I created no existing backups with the Windows app--but after I selected long-deleted ones in the left pane and clicked Ignore a bunch of times, it seems to have found ones I created with the boot media.  (Apparently it found them via "auto-search", presumably because I'd mounted one so it knew the new foldername.)

But auto-search only found a few of them.  I thought it might help to "Add backup" to teach it the new destination foldername, but the left pane of the Backup | Recovery tab was still missing most of that folder's backups, I suppose it hadn't felt like doing another "auto-search" yet lol.

Thank goodness I found how to manually add the existing ones!  It was interesting to learn that that folder had been deleted two days ago, and nice to re-Restore from just that Incremental!