When You Hide Macrium Reflect How Can You See It Again
| By weez - 23 June 2019 11:02 AM When I run a backup manually, a system tray icon shows up that I can use to open a window to watch the backup in progress. That's very convenient. Once this window is dismissed, the system tray icon does not return and I can't figure out a way to view the progress of a subsequent backup without logging out/in again. There doesn't seem to be a way to minimize the progress window, only dismiss/hide it. Is there a straight-forward way to view the progress window on-demand, at any time, without depending on the [temperamental] system tray icon and associated progress window? In other words a "regular" executable to display the progress window every time it is launched? Or maybe the backup needs to be started in a particular way for the system tray icon to always show up when a backup is in progress (I've been right-clicking on the scheduled backup task list and choosing "run now")? |
| By Froggie - 23 June 2019 11:49 AM In v7, <CNTRL-ALT-M> should do that for you... |
| By weez - 23 June 2019 11:59 AM Just what I was looking for. Thank you. |
| By jphughan - 23 June 2019 2:03 PM The system tray icon shouldn't disappear just from clicking Hide in the activity monitor. Are you sure the icon isn't ending up in the hidden section of your system tray icons, accessed by clicking the arrow button next to the leftmost icon that's always visible? I see an icon of a blue hard drive in my system tray even when background scheduled backups are running, and that appears for me even on servers where I wasn't even logged on when the backup began. |
| By weez - 23 June 2019 2:33 PM Quite sure...I have system settings set to always show all icons. There is an "invisible" icon in the tray which I think has something to do with Reflect. When I turn off "show all icons" and manually enable/disable the Macrium Reflect icon, this invisible icon seems to occupy (or not occupy) a spot in the tray. But hovering over it shows no text, click/double-click/right-click do nothing. I've seen this behavior across many releases/updates of Reflect and updates to Windows, so I don't think it's been any recent changes. Windows 10 pro 1709 (delaying feature updates, all other updates current as of a couple weeks ago). I'm in the middle of doing some backups right now; I'll post exact steps to replicate what I'm seeing when the backups are finished. |
| By weez - 23 June 2019 3:47 PM Well, try as I might, I can't replicate the behavior (of course...) after a fresh login. I suspect there must be something else on my system that is causing weird behavior in the system tray and it's impacting Reflect's tray icon/behavior. If I can reliably reproduce what I've seen, I'll post again, but since I can't reproduce the behavior after a fresh login/reboot at will, I think it's got to be some interaction between multiple applications (or some application is goofing things up for others). I have noticed that a manual restart of Windows Explorer (which I do from time to time because a couple of the full-screen games I play mess with the task bar) some tray icons disappear. I don't know if that's what's going on here, but it's similar enough to give me some food for thought. In any event, thanks for the help and suggestions. Ctrl-alt-M lets me get around the weirdness, so this really isn't a major concern for me, now. [I'm going to be migrating to a new box in the not-too-distant future, so it's not worth a huge amount of effort to do a deep dive on this since it could very likely be some weirdness with my current system] |
| By jphughan - 23 June 2019 4:20 PM Yes, killing and restarting Explorer does seem to wipe out certain system tray icons, although I've never figured out what determines whether a given icon survives that. Good luck! |
| By Looraz - 4 January 2020 2:10 AM Hi, I am encountering the same issue as well, the icon in the system tray is "hidden", only when I hover the icon can I see that it is the icon for Macrium current backup. See attached image. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+M does nothing for me within the Macrium application itself. Manualling stopping and then running the scheduled backup results in the same behaviour. |
| By jphughan - 4 January 2020 2:13 AM I've seen that hidden system tray icon behavior myself, although I've also seen it with other applications, so I wonder if that's an OS issue. If Ctrl+Alt+M isn't doing anything, what keyboard layout do you have? I remember there was an issue with that default shortcut on German keyboards because (if memory serves here?) Alt+M on those keyboards produces the Greek character "mu", which I think prevented the shortcut from working correctly. But if you open ReflectMonitor directly via the system tray icon, you can click the File menu in the upper-left corner and select "Configure Hotkey" to change the trigger key. |
| By Looraz - 4 January 2020 2:18 AM I've seen that hidden system tray icon behavior myself, although I've also seen it with other applications, so I wonder if that's an OS issue. If Ctrl+Alt+M isn't doing anything, what keyboard layout do you have? I remember there was an issue with that default shortcut on German keyboards because (if memory serves here?) Alt+M on those keyboards produces the Greek character "mu", which I think prevented the shortcut from working correctly. But if you open ReflectMonitor directly via the system tray icon, you can click the File menu in the upper-left corner and select "Configure Hotkey" to change the trigger key. Okay weird, I updated Macrium and everything resolved by itself. However, the Ctrl+Alt+M shortcut still doesn't work though. |
| By jphughan - 4 January 2020 2:33 AM Do you have any other utilities installed on your system that might be intercepting keyboard input, like Autohotkey? Do you have Ctrl+Alt+M mapped to a Windows shortcut (accomplished by right-clicking an application shortcut, going to Properties, and entering something in the Shortcut Key field)? Does changing the trigger key to another letter allow it to start working? |
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