How on earth do I remove old backups the RIGHT way?

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I've been using Acronis True Image for many years and there was a time when I could restore differential or incremental backups so reliably that I published an article on how much better it worked than Windows Home Server (the old version that worked). Now, however, I cannot for the life of me delete old backups from my 1TB or 2TB external drives without making everything unrecoverable.

In the old days, I simply went into the external drive with Windows Explorer and made sure to keep the "*full*" files from the time period I wanted to preserve. But that doesn't work anymore. And now when I get a message from True Image that I'm running out of space, I can't for the life of me figure out how to delete old data without wiping EVERYTHING out and starting from scratch, which I never want to do of course.

If I sound like a hopeless newb, so be it, but trust me when I say I've been using True Image and paying for my annual subscription upgrades for years.

So please, can so sage tell me what to do, step by step, when I want to delete data from a drive of full-and-differential backups that's only got 95GB left?

Tue, 08/13/2013 - 23:55
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I'm like you, and I miss the simple days when I used Norton Ghost 9 on XP. Never had any troubles. I previously bought Ghost 15 before Acronis 2013, and in the end, threw it in the garbage. Anyway, not sure I know enough to help, but try this. See both screen capture attachments of ATI 2013. If you can view the information on a back-up, under back-up and recovery, right click on one and then select the delete whole back-up option. But be careful!!! I found that the delete "settings only" choice actually deletes the back-up files also. Needless to say I was not happy when I learned that!!! There is also an option on the little settings wheel that looks like it will search for back-ups. The drives they're are on must be powered up and/or accessible.
If that doesn't work, try the browse for back-ups option and then try to delete them manually. Again, the drives they're are on must be powered up and/or accessible.
Good luck!!!

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Thu, 08/15/2013 - 00:57