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Problem trying to do a selective recovery of a full-disk backup

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I made a full disk backup of my laptop hard drive prior to reloading the OS. After the reload I began transferring selected folders out of the tib file and back onto my laptop (My Documents, etc.) using Windows Explorer. When I tried to transfer the My Music folder, the computer thought about it for a moment and then did nothing. It might have something to do with the size of that folder (approximately 120GB, 30,000 files).

I can go in and transfer the individual folders one at a time but there are over 2,000 of them so that is not a good solution.

Is there another way to accomplish this?

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Easiest is to copy over some but not all at once. Alternatively you can boot up the restore disk, and restore selected files rather than copy them out of a a mounted image.

Thanks Scott, that is pretty much what I was thinking.

Do you have any idea what the per-transfer limits are on the mounted image?

There shouldn't be any so long as you aren't going beyond what the file system can handle. I believe it's a bug in ati 2012 and I was suggesting a workaround. Since we're getting close to when the next version will probably come out (they seem to come out every year around September), Acronis is probably not devoting a lot of resources to ati 2012 and if it is making a fix, probably going to incorporate it in ati 2013 or whatever they might call it. I don't know any of this for a fact. just ime. There might be another thread about hit (iirc) where they might have discussed this but I can't find it right now.