I used to be a long time user of acronis true image more than ten years... I even was on their beta test program for a number of years. In my opinion acronis got worse and worse after about 2015/6 as a product and a company - I believe they got bough out by a venture capital company. Basic things were either removed or did not work e.g. you do differential backups. There was no way to delete a differentials from inside the program and if you deleted one from outside the program the index files messed up and you could literally get hundreds of error message popups one after another all saying could not find file x. The tech support in the forums basically stopped replying to peoples complaints - I must have complained for about 4 ot 5 years before they put deleting differentials back into their software. Then acronis decided to start offering yearly licenses automatically renewing and added pay per year per GB cloud and anti virus into a backup program rather than fix the backup program they had, then they decided to go pay per year rent only NOT even allowing existing users with permanent licenses to buy more licenses for the software they already had full licenses for. At tis point I jumped ship to macrium reflect just as Acronis did a product rebranding exercise rather than fix the things people where complaining about... Their backup software did not even allow you to select your own drivers from your own windows install so if you had fancy network cards, host bus adapters etc your recovery image had no support so you could not recover. There was no bit locker support so if you had bit locker encrypted drives you could not read them from their recovery medium.. it took an acronis forum member to write scripts to inject drivers and bit locker support to make the recovery medium actually useful to recover with because acronis could not be bothered to do it themselves.. In my opinion without the forum contributed scripts acronis would have been abandoned long before their product lost focus and became pay per year only.
In my personal experience acronis lost the plot... just look at the stream of complaints in their support forum...
macrium reflect on the other hand allows you to select drivers from your existing windows when you build recovery media, allows deletion of differentials and the recovery medium supports bit locker out of the box and is still buy once own forever.. They also dont seem to bring out a new version every year with lots of useless features.
That sucks that you experience it that way, I'm listening to it now via Tidal, and I'm not hearing any gaps.
That said, I have experienced that in the past, and it's maddening, so I sympathize.
Me, some thrash prog:
https://tidal.com/browse/album/217042404
^ That’s a great photo (there are plenty of The Hawk).
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RIP philosopher Joseph Raz
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2022/05/philosophys-gentle-giant
I missed Alan White passing.
I don't think I can count how many times I have seen him live with the various incarnations of Yes (11 to 13 times at least).
He never was the standout drummer - but a very good drummer - a great band drummer.
I will have a few things to pick from to listen to.
RIP Alan.