The program sports many ease-of-use features, such as automatically scanning the drives on your system for existing backups. The only minor gap in said logic was the grouping of backup and recovery actions under the single heading of “backup.” Most users think of these as separate tasks and start the program to do one or the other. It’s handsomely styled à la Windows 8 and logically laid out.
Maiden-version bugs aside, the new interface looks and feels great. Selecting data to back up is much simpler that with previous iterations of True Image. Based on past experience with Acronis, the issues will be resolved once the company is convinced they exist. The update function and license functions were ersatz as well, although this could have been due to the multiple builds I needed to install. Acronis fixed the first two issues by the time this went to press, but the latter remained in the release version. Acronis True Image 2015’s interface is miles better than the company’s previous efforts.Īs for the wrinkles: Initially the scroll bars required for mouse use didn’t appear (some are hidden, à la the Mac), were too small, or were non-functional due to overlapping the resize border on the right-hand side of its windows.
