Avoid Restore Error Prompt
I need to restore appx 100G of data. This process will take many, many hours. But while restoring I get errors and the restore process stops until I click 'ignore' or 'retry'. I can't baby sit the process and it will effectively make the restore process take a week!
Is there a way to disable this OR will the errors be avoided if I restore to an alternate location? OR are there other ways to avoid the errors?


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Thank you for responding! I appreciate it.
I resolved by restoring to a NEW folder. But I shouldn't have to do that.
Since Feb 8th I needed to restore a different folder and had the same experience. In order not to get errors, I needed to restore a new folder.
Can you explain to me if I am doing something wrong.
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There can be many different reasons for the errors being given but allowing that you don't get these when restoring to a new Folder, they would seem to relate to restoring files or folders into a target location that already contain files or folders of the same name.
Can you provide more details of exactly what you are trying to do here, or provide the logs showing the errors you are being given, as otherwise I am guessing and may not be giving you correct information?
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That's exactly what happened. Some files in a folder got erased and that is why I was restoring. Are you saying that Acronis doesn't really handle that?
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I don't believe that this is simply a case that Acronis doesn't handle finding existing files in a folder when restoring data, but more that this is a normal Windows protection action in trying to prevent data from being overwritten without getting the users consent to do so.
Have you tried changing the File Recovery Options in ATIH 2015 - click on Options then look in the Advanced tab and expand the Overwrite file options in the File Recovery Options section - this allows you to Overwrite existing files plus has settings to prevent overwriting hidden files, system files etc, plus you can customise this by adding your own specific files & folders?
Note: the default is not to overwrite existing files that are newer than those being restored which is where you may be seeing the error prompt messages?
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Okay thank you VERY much for your help.
Perhaps that is the issue. I may have newer files on the destination folder. But if I leave choose not to replace them (keep the newer ones) why would Acronis prompt me? Or are you saying that the prompt is really coming from Windows???
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If you want ATIH to not prompt you and leave your newer files and folders alone when restoring data, then you will need to tick the option for this in the Overwrite file options section, i.e. Do not overwrite - More recent files and folders - which is not ticked by default.
The reference to Windows was only in the context that this is how Windows behaves when copying files and prompts when it encounters files with the same name or of more recent date etc.
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Okay, thats a lot! I didn't read properly
THANK YOU for your help.
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