Setting Backup Definition Files to run automatically

Apologies for the long post. For years, Macrium was set up a long time ago to make regular scheduled backups of my C drive. Very reliable. After a crash the two old Backup Def. Files had disappeared, so I have now set up two identical replacement BU Def. File with identical timings on different days and to different ext. backup drives. They work manually as before.

I then went to schedule these BUs to run periodicallyp. Under the "Backup Definition Files" tab I selected my Def. File. The decorative buttons at the top of this page (which have not changed over the years) has a button of a black circle with a clock face and a white and green "+" which has a label "Schedule the selected file to run automatically". I presse this button to see a new window "Edit a Plan for this Backup. I pressed "Edit Schedule" and got an error "Selection Error. Please select only one schedule". I had selected only one schedule! I can get no further. No-one has ever used this comp. except me.

(During a previous attempt following the above I got further, to the point when I was asked to set up a regular schedule and was asked for a password and my computer's name. I have no idea what my computer's name is (some text is offered which I didn't recognise) but I do have a "sign in on starting" pw going back years which I have never used. That did not work. But now I can't even get that far. I have shut down and restarted the comp.)

How can I get my two Backup Def. Files, already newly set to run on different days, to run automatically, which had worked for years.

Thanks for anyhelp.

Here are the details you mention. The machine started to misbehave. For example, Photoshop
Elements refused to recognise the "Open with" command, and there were other glitches. I restored the machine with the method that preserved the C drive but there was no improvement. I therefore re-instaled Windows 10 from scratch and re-installed my programs and re-set various settings. I believe that had completely erased the C drive. Fortunately, the C drive being an SSD, all documents are on an internal (spinning) drive. The comp. returned to normal behaviour.

I then created the two backup routines mentioned in my post, one making a backup of the C drive on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; the other covering Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. These worked manually OK before the crash. I then (as described in my first post) went to schedule these BUs to run periodically but didn't get far (please see my first post).

Thanks for telling me how to discover the computer's name. I think I reached just once a sufficiently advanced stage (as mentioned) offering an ability to create a new PW but, as in my earlier post, I can't get even to that stage.

You said "Your definitions are usually stored in a "Reflect" folder in your documents library. Assuming your libraries are on C: " But my C has been erased, and there is no sign of the "Reflect folder" in the default position of Documents still on the C drive, nor in my Documents Folder redirected a long time ago to my D drive.


There is something wrong here when the computer states that I am trying to schedule two backup files when only one is involved. All this worked perfectly long before the crash. The ability to have regular automatic backups is important to me and am puzzled why it won't do what it did before the crash.

You said "Any chance your user id changed from Admin to Standard user." How would I check that please?

Thanks for your help.

I have just discovered the following in a Control Panel User Account > User Accounts > Make changes to your user account > :

" my name Steve Kirkby, Local Account, Administrator, Password protected"

Hope that helps.

Caledon Ken said:

Click Start, Settings, Accounts. Should come up to "Your Info". I imaging it is an Admin Account as you Clean installed. Since you cleaned installed Macrium is also freash and not repaired.

When you open reflect and then click on your Backup Definitions Tab where are yours being stored. You will see where to the right of the definition name.

Here is what I get (attached clip):

Yes, that's the way I redirected it.

When I click the pencil, I get the usual Macrium window, as in the attchment here. The lower backup (checked) is the one I use (59.24 GB):