I'm coming back to this thread after failing to get the version of MR 8 that's supposed to get around the browsing images problem working.
I eventually contacted customer support and got the advice given here regarding the fix, which I was aware of, although I don't recall if the registry key change I was told to do to fix this was mentioned, but it's been a while, and a torrid time with many dead ends, a huge amount of frustration and confusion, and much profanity. (Warning- skip the next FIVE paragraphs if you aren't interested in a rant).
Recontacting support to see if they had any comment on the failure of their 'fix' resulted in a deafening silence. Oh dear..., not even a 'sorry mate', or maybe even 'we''ll look into it'.
I'm tempted to share my whole experience, of a C drive restore that lead to a completely screwed disk, (which I'm not blaming Macrium for, but I've not been able to eliminate the possibility), beyond any possible recovery at all, resulting in requiring a complete partition deletion of the drive and a clean win 11 install (and a massive re-customising of win 11 that is currently in its 2nd week, and nearly there, but getting dark mode for far too many old style windows menus is proving difficult, such that re-installing Rectify 11 is tempting, despite it probably being involved in some way when my Win 11 got screwed a few years ago. And, despite uninstalling it properly, there appeared to be left-overs, and it also was reported to be 'installed' by anything that lists installed progs. And my substitute strategy I developed, though not perfect, was much more thorough than I've currently got to now.
But, as I said - no in depth report
And I won't even go into the reg fix issue after I'd found it had no effect, and I'd undone that in the registry, and rebooted, and couldn't sign in to my Bitwarden account because it didn't recognise my master password that I KNOW is correct - such that I eventually got permanently locked out on the PC, then the phone, without any backup of my vault (ugh), but was still able to access it on the tablet, so manually copid and pasted everything to a text file (that wasn't at all trivial), then borked a new account, then nearly borked a third, among yet more panic and confusion. Nope, not going into that at all either.
But now having found I've accidentally moved many hundreds of files within a directory on a separate hard disk to a sub directory, which involves tons of metadata referenced by four different progs (think Lightroom and Capture One territory) I'm very loath to just move them back to where they belong (been there done that, spent ages fixing the mess). Yes, I have backups - macrium of course, and mirrors in two different places. Yep, mirrors, of what exists currently, which gets me nowhere. But browsing a Reflect image almost certainly will, as I'm (almost) certain to find the pre-cockup file structure there).
Now, welcome back to those who just want the real meat.
I haven't actually done this yet, but in a moment of divine inspiration just after I woke up this morning I decided to google the difference between MR8 and MR-X. Radical, eh?
So, it turns out, according to the AI bot, that MR X will access all previous Macrium version images in order to browse them (no restoring of course). What??? This just seems to be the obvious answer to all of us who refuse to participate in the subscription scam - started by Adobe really, in the mass consumer market anyway, hence be being a former long-time Lightroom user, and Capture One for similar, but not QUITE the same, behaviour. Hoping AI is correct. (fool).
It involves the installation of X for the trial version, then lateryou'll obvs need to reinstall your licenced old version for (almost) proper functionality, and repeat this faff every time you want to browse an image. I'll also image my C drive before installing X so I can restore it if the uninstallation borks the C drive.
I suppose I might eventually buy a 1 year sub for X and never renew it though (I haven't actually checked that feasible...). I really don't mind paying a reasonable upgrade price for added features (though so many products that offer an upgrade path in addition to subs seem to charge 50% of a sub for not an actual lot).
BTW, I made the fatal mistake, years ago, to make scheduled backups of the Windows partition on C, so when my whole drive was corrupted (I got a EFI error when trying to boot) I was in deep do-do. I notice now that that's kind of not advised in Marcrium's help. Or, more acurately, more than kind of.
If my strategy doesn't work I'll report back (maybe if it actually does, too).
(now!).
