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Restore entire TIB to Disk - Drag-Drop Prohibited

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I have a TIB file of a disk. I want to restore a large folder with many files band subfolders. Dragging is prohibited. So now I want to restore the whole TIB to a spare portable USB drive. This should be simple, but I cannot figure out how to do this!! I see zillions of posts on how to open the TIB and navigate to a file then drag and drop. I have many thousands of files and folder within the one I want to restore. So, yeah, how do just restore the TIB in its entirety. I did not create the TIB on this machine so it'snot in my backups list. How to I open/select a TIB and say "restore to drive x"? I know it will overwrite the x drive!

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I should mention what I meant by "prohibited" - a poor description. I cannot successfully drag the folder I want out of the TIB and drop it elsewhere. When opening the TIB in the File Explorer, I see the backup, opening that shows the top level of folders on the disk I backed up. If I try to drag and drop one of those folders to another drive, I see a brief flurry of disk activity for 60-70 seconds, then..... nothing. It simply stops with no errors. If I right click on the folder and copy, then paste to the other disk, same thing. It seems to be doing something then it just stops.

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Have you tried copy and paste rather than draging. Select the directory you want to copy, then right click and select copy. (shortcut Ctrl+C) Go to the location where you want to copy the directory to, and select past (short cut Crtl+V).

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I did, if you read my post I mentioned that. The folder had over 200,000 files in nested folders. Too much for the drag and drop access!!  I eventually copied the TIB file to a portable USB disk, then TrueImage detected it and added it to its backups list. I was then able to restore to another portable USB, from which I was able to get the folder. Ugly but it worked. 

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Robert Denny wrote:

I did, if you read my post I mentioned that. The folder had over 200,000 files in nested folders. Too much for the drag and drop access!!  I eventually copied the TIB file to a portable USB disk, then TrueImage detected it and added it to its backups list. I was then able to restore to another portable USB, from which I was able to get the folder. Ugly but it worked. 

Hello Robert!

Thanks for sharing what helped you to solve the issue.

Thanks in advance!