Release Notes for Acronis True Image Home 2012 Update 2.1

Release Notes for Acronis True Image Home 2012 Update 2.1
Release date: July 12, 2012
Build: English USA, English UK, German & French
Build number: 7133

Installation procedure
The installation procedure is straightforward. Please, run the downloaded executable file and follow the instructions.

List of issues fixed since the previous build (7119)

Installation

• Installation fails if specific Windows Control Panel registry key is missing

Backup

• Backup fails if Nero Scout utility (part of Nero 7) folder was selected for backup.

Other fixes

• TrueImage.exe crashes after the program start if it was updated from previous build.
• TrueImage.exe crashes after the program if it was installed on the machine along with other Acronis software
• TrueImage.exe crashes after the program start if the system has been cloned to an SSD disk.
• TrueImage.exe hangs after the program start if Bitlocker-encrypted partition exists in the system
• Connection to a remote server is lost periodically after Acronis Online Backup trial period has expired.
• E-mail notification settings are not displayed in GUI when backup plan is being edited.
• Acronis True Image Home console may hang if Nero Scout utility (part of Nero 7) is installed.

List of issues fixed since the previous build (6154)

Installation

• A backup version disappears from a timeline after updating from Acronis True Image Home 2011.
• Acronis Media Add-on cannot be updated. Also, a custom installation during update is not allowed.
• The Activate the product automatically checkbox is shown when a trial key is entered.
• A custom product installation for different users has been added. Now the software detects which users need Acronis True Image Home to be upgraded.
• A product installation to a custom path containing Unicode symbols fails.
• The product installation occasionally fails with error 1603 because of Virtual Disk Driver issues.
• After updating Acronis True Image Home, it occasionally crashed after editing and saving a disk backup task created using a previous stable build.
• An Acronis True Image Home serial number is not displayed in the Help - About window if Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack is installed.

Backup

• NAS is not available as a location for reserve copies of backups.
• Cannot save changes for E-mail backup options if scheduling is turned on (for E-mail backup task).
• Editing an E-mail backup name fails.
• An error appears when the user runs an E-mail backup task edited it while Microsoft Outlook is on.
• The Windows Start button disappears after creating a file backup.
• An unused Backup comment option appears in File\Disk recovery options windows.
• The multiple partition selection appears incorrectly in the Edit backup settings.
• Acronis True Image Home crashes while browsing for a backup that contains a deleted folder in one of the slices.
• A NAS icon is missing in the Browse for backup window.
• Acronis True Image Home task hangs for 2 minutes when the user is trying to start a backup task with an unavailable destination location.
• Impossible to validate a backup if it is not the last one in a backup chain. Now the entire backup chain is validated when any of its backups is selected for validation.
• The product deletes an existing backup when starting a new backup task to a reconnected drive and hitting the Retry button.
• A backup archive name is not changed after editing a task.
• Removed the possibility of backing up to an empty USB card reader that resulted in an error.
• The program crashes after closing the Disk Backup window which appears after selecting Back up in the popup menu in My Computer.
• Deleting a backup version in a Nonstop Backup time line fails when the location is full.
• Fails to save an edited backup task to a new shared folder location. An incorrect error message appears ("Failed to open information...").

Restore

• The Show MBR menu is active while recovering a GPT disk.
• Logical partition type appears in a drop-down list when specifying the partition properties while restoring an MBR partition to a GPT disk.
• Wrong backup is deleted when user deletes a backup version from Explore and Restore wizard.
• Restore of a Nonstop Backup archive from an external USB storage fails.
• A "Recovering..." operation progress is shown incorrectly while adding a new disk.
• Overwrite file options have been removed from Disk Recovery options because they are not applicable for disk archives.
• Recovering data from an encrypted box fails with the error "Cannot open the encrypted stream" in logs.
• An unnecessary option of excluding files by mask in disk recovery options has been removed.

Online Backup & Synchronization

• Information about an online backup size is updated only after the program relaunch or uninstallation.
• A network load has been reduced during synchronization.
• Acronis Online Backup: file deletion from the product interface does not produce an operation log.
• Restoring deleted files from the Online Backup sometimes failed if many slices had been created after the deletion.

Bootable Media

• Removing Acronis Media Builder via Modify option fails, and Media Builder remains installed.
• Browse for location window in the Backup wizard contains the CD-RW drive twice.
• A warning appears even when correct credentials for NAS are specified.
• A bootable media rebooted after restoring from a nonstop backup storage.

Try&Decide

• Activating Try&Decide with a system partition selected as both a protected partition and as a storage for virtual changes resulted in a BSoD (for virtual machines only).
• Try&Decide corrupts some settings (for example, Mozilla Firefox settings) after discarding changes.

Drivers

• TrueImageService.exe sometimes hangs when shutting down a computer.
• The Acronis SnapAPI module, TIMounter and Try&Decide drivers have been updated.
• Fixed several issues concerning syncagentsrv.exe, TrueImageMonitor.exe, TrueImage.exe, TrueImageHomeService.exe, and ti_managers_proxy.dll crashes, that have been detected through the Windows Error Report system.

Error handling

• Error handling during the product installation has been improved.
• Sometimes, a "Failed to run now: task is already running" error message appears incorrectly instead of running a task.
• Acronis System Report has been improved. It now includes a list of UEFI variables on UEFI-based operating systems.
• An error message appears when trying to delete an unavailable backup from Acronis True Image Home.
• Now the correct warning appears when an operation is canceled (by user or by timeout).
• A false "No Windows libraries" warning appears in the log of Windows operating systems that do not support Windows libraries.

User documentation

• Help and User Guide have been updated according to changes in Acronis True Image Home Update 2.

Other fixes

• Certain cards cannot be properly detected through card readers.
• The Notifications tray still appears after disabling notifications in the Windows tray options.
• Notifications about a task failure are not sent through certain SMTP servers.
• A disk layout is not shown when selecting this disk in the Disk Management wizard.
• Acronis True Image Home hangs after deleting all logs from an event log window.
• When WMI works incorrectly, an activation loop: "Hardware ID has been changed" appears after every reboot.
• Opening network folders from file dialogues has been improved: unnecessary authentication windows do not appear.
• Certain USB drives (e.g., Patriot flash drives) are not detected properly under Windows operating systems.
• The Failed to send e-mail notification warning is shown in Log for Add New Disk and Create Acronis Secure Zone operations.
• Default settings of an archive validation have been removed to prevent the operating system from hanging at the "Operation is in progress" stage during shutdown.
• The Operation start delay option does not work if a task is scheduled on an event - system startup.
• A task scheduled to start when a computer is idle instead starts on a computer shutdown or reboot with the message "Operations are in progress".
• An error appears when trying to start Acronis True Image Home 2012 while Scheduler is stopped and there is a scheduled task.
• Now the program can check if a destination path is available while editing a task. If the path is not available, an appropriate warning appears.
• Incorrect Learn more about Acronis Disk Director link in the Partition Properties window.

List of known issues

• Updating from Acronis True Image Home (build 6154) to Acronis True Image Home 2012 Update 2.1 may require a computer reboot, because Windows Explorer blocks updating certain components.