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Sorry, did that without getting signed in. VPN adapter had to be reinstalled. All else OK so far.

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UPDATE: After a painfully slow process, 1809 finally installed correctly.

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Zaphyrus

Update to original post: Ran DISM ….. /restorehealth routine and it failed. Found out that the Windows Update service was on manual. Changed back to automatic. Ran DISM ////restorehealth again and it ran successfully. Ran SFC /scannow and some corrupt files were fixed. Disabled 3rd party anti-virus & malware programs. Started 1809 update again via the Win10 Update Assistant and it’s now at 96% and no freezing yet. Keeping my fingers crossed.

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Zaphyrus

All seems to be OK, for now with file history, but ……. I only added 5 drives to the pool and I can’t get the other 3 to add no matter how they’re formatted. Any ideas?

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

Set up for every hour & save for 1 year.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

Well, that didn’t work. I’m trying another drastic measure. I turned off file history and disabled the file history service. Also deleted the file history database in /users/ed/appdata/local/microsoft/windows/filehistory. Deleted the storage space & pool, removed all of the drives. After rebuilding the storage pool, I restarted the file history service and turned on file history, pointing it to the newly established pool. So far, so good. I’ve got 228 GB used in the pool and file history stopped running. Seems as though file history had a mind of it’s own and kept running until the pool was full, although looking at the files backed up, I saw no super large files that would be taking up TBs of room when it should have been abut 450-475 GB with many backups done. We’ll see.

PS. The disks in the pool were balanced and that function seems to work well.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

Nope, not off hand. I start to use the PC in the AM and find a message, like I did this morning. Another message asking for more disks. All 8 are almost maxed. No error messages, just the warnings. I deleted the pool, removed all of the disks from it. Re-formatted all 8 and now Storage Spaces won’t let me use them to create a new pool. “can’t create pool, the request is not supported 0x00000032”

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Win 10, Ver 1607 Build .693. Yes, they are used only for file history. Looked in File History Core & File History Backup Log. I had warnings that a particular file was not backed up because it was open. I did have errors, but only while I was deleting storage pools and re-configuring while FH did not recognize the new pool. Right now its working OK again using 772 Gb. of 7.27Tb. pool capacity balanced across the 8 drives at 10.3 or 10.4% each. Any thoughts on why the entire pool may have maxed out suddenly. Maybe I should just give up on using FH and storage spaces.

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I did try it. I chose a file that had only 6 versions in file history. I deleted 1 of the versions in windows explorer, then ran “restore personal files” from the control panel. It did indicate that there had been 6 versions, but when I got to that version in the file history window, I got the message, “This version can’t be previewed because it wasn’t found in your file history”. So, it seems that if you delete a version of a file in windows explorer, file history still knows that the version was there but can no longer find it to display when using the file history in control panel. At some point, the file history database may correct itself as if that version never existed. But, it doesn’t seem to do any harm by deleting the file/s in windows explorer.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

I think I know what you were asking, and I think it’s possible. Use Windows Explorer to open & explore the drive that FH is using for the files. Do not use the “Restore Personal Files” option on the file history window. Do a search for the file name that you are looking for and that file will display each & every version that was ever backed up, with time/date stamps. Delete each one that you don’t want any longer to be in the file history.

Was this what you were looking for?

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ESET and Malwarebytes

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Ok, coochin, your suggestion solved the problem. I went to C:UsersAppDataRoamingMicrosoftInternet ExplorerQuick LaunchUser PinnedTaskBar and deleted both Outlook 2016 entries. After removing the icon from the taskbar, and re-pinning it, it did finally show as “Outlook 2016” and not as a second occurrence.

Thanks to all for suggestions.

It does seem a bit strange to me that the taskbar entries were in a folder as a subordinate folder of internet explorer. I would have figured Windows Explorer, especially since I don’t even use IE or Edge.

In any case, thanks again.

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Well, i tried option 2 and, when I pinned Outlook back to the taskbar, it showed as “Outlook 2016 (2)” once again. Need to try other ways I guess.

thanks for the try, davidhk

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No, I’m not going to reinstall Office just for that. Thought somebody might know where it might reside in the registry or something where I could locate the offender and delete it. In the meantime I just renamed a shortcut to “Outlook” (rather than it’s default “Outlook 2016”)and put it back on the taskbar.

Thanks, davidhk

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-

Well, it does remove the Outlook icon, as expected, but when I pin it back to the taskbar again, it still appears as Outlook 2016 (2).

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -Edmond Burke-