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I had a quick look through the forum but can't find anything on this. My computer has recently started going very slowly, I've updated several programs of late and thought it might be down to one of those. I had a full back up from before I did the updates so figured I'd re image my C:drive with that backup to see if that backed up my theory of one of the program backups had cocked things up. Before I reimaged it from the old backup I thought it a good idea to do a new full backup, I made a new folder and did a new backup into that. To my dismay when I then went to re-image the old back up onto the drive I found that it was now gone, the new back up had erased the old backup even though it was in a different folder. I can't believe a back up program will without asking and getting permission will simply erase files on your computer! That is absolute rubbish, how can I stop it doing this again next time I do a full back up, I backed up to a completely different folder to the previous backup yet it still went into another folder and erased it's contents, this is sooooooooooooooooo!!!!! wrong!

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Michael, welcome to these public User Forums.

What you have described above is not expected behaviour unless you are reusing an existing backup task for the new full backup and have automatic cleanup set to store only 1 backup version for that task.

When wanting to make a completely new full backup, then I would recommend either creating a new backup task for that purpose or else, boot from Acronis rescue media to create that new full backup (where there is no automatic cleanup options and task settings are not saved etc).