My Last Backup is no longer shown after I restore from it.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 with all updates on Windows 7 64 bit fully updated.
I back up (manually) every evening. I back up to an EXTERNAL USB 3 HD. My scheme is five differential backups between each full backup but I don't think that matters in this case.
REAL WORLD EXAMPLE:
On Friday, I messed up my computer so I did a restore from my Thursday backup. It went well. Always does.
On that same Friday, and after the successful restore, I am working on something else and mess up my system AGAIN. So I need to restore again from that (yesterday's) same Thursday backup I just used an hour ago.
But ... now ATI is showing my most recent backup as the backup I made the previous WEDNESDAY. I "explore" backups and indeed Wednesday (not Thursday) is the most recent backup ATI shows me.
Using a file manager, I browse the external backup HD and find that my Thursday backup is still there. But I can find no way to make ATI list / show it to me so I can again restore from that Thursday backup.
Finally, I am forced to boot from the recovery CD and dig around until I find that Thursday backup on that external HD ... and do the restore from the recovery backup CD environment. That is never as easy nor clean as simply working from the ATI Windows environment.
So can someone tell me how to make Acronis True Image in Win 7 show me the "latest" backup out there on my backup HD after I've already recovered from that backup once?
Thanks,

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The problem that you had was caused by the restore. The restore put the backup information back to your backup date so after the restore, TI did not know about latest backup--hence it was not listed. Browsing to backup and using the "Add to list" function is the closest to a partial correction. Unfortunately, this is one of the fallacies of a data base tracking of backups. The new Old working system does not know about the backup you created several days ago. Hence, your situation.
Your best solution is really to start a new task to a new folder.
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Yes. That is the process that gives me a new dialog box on the Acronis screen, but you are correct, at least I can access it from within Windows. Thanks for the help.
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