can't validate a backup

I make regular backups to an external hard drive. For some reason acronis decided to no longer offer me the option to validate the backup from my backups list.

When I browse to the backup files and try to validate the backups using the context menu, acronis gives error messages about scripts.

This stuff used to work 5 years ago. These guys need to stop trying to expand into cloud services and get their product back to functional parity with last decade's version.