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Acronis doesn't recognize full backups that I've created in the past.  When I go to delete older backups it says backups can't be found and offers to remove it from the list.  What if I wanted to install an older backup?  The older backups are located in windows explorer.  Very confusing!  Please clarify.

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If you manually move, rename, or delete backps in Windows file explorer, the Acronis database has no recollection of these changes that are done outside of Acronis.  Its database thinks they are where the database recorded them when they were created.  In some cases, if backups are on a USB drive, Windows may have reassigned the drive letter to something else (because antoher drive was already using it).  This can have the same consequence since they don't exist where the database recorded them when they were originally created.  You can avoid Windows reassigning different drive letters, by manually picking a letter further down the alphabet since Windows will automatically assign new drives (or those with conflicting drive letters), the next available letter (usually D, E, or whatever is next - this is why usb drives tend to get reassigned if they are all set up with D originally, but you plug both in, one of them will be set to E and remain E unless it gets bumpped again).    http://www.howtogeek.com/96298/assign-a-static-drive-letter-to-a-usb-drive-in-windows-7/ (applies to Win 7 - Win 10 if you want to manually pick a less common drive letter to avoid this ... just make sure to go back into your backup job and re-pick the source/destination again after doing this).

If Acronis is telling you it can't find the backup file and is asking you to locate it or delete it, it means the drive letter has changed, or you moved or deleted them outside of Acronis.  To update the Acronis database, you then have to manually point it to the correct location using the "locate" option.  If you "delete" here, then it will remove it from the database and act like it doesn't exist. You can always recover any good backups with your offline recovery media.  Alternatively, if you delete the the backup task but leave the backup files in play, you can import them back into the console as well...

 

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