Can't Remove Datasets From SQL Server Management Studio Restore Database Dialog

Hello,
I am trying to restore a database in MS SQL 2008 R2 Management Studio on a Windows 2008 server.
- I right click the Databases folder and choose Restore Databases.
- I select the From device radio button as usual and click Add.
- I specify a .bck file as usual and click OK.
- When I return to the Restore Database dialog are two backup sets already in the "Select backup location to restore" part of the dialog that I unsuccessfully tried to restore earlier already there.
- I can see the path to the backup set that I want to add in the "From device" field of the "Restore Database" dialog. The backup is not listed in "Select backup location to restore" as it should be.
- I tried restarting the SQL Server service and I rebooted the server but the files were still there when I tried to do a restore.
- There is no option to remove the extra datasets in the "Select backup location to restore" part of the dialog. I am hoping that if I can remove the extra datasets that this will resolve the problem. Does anyone have any idea how to remove them?
Martin Mann

Hello,
My issue was a bit different then your screenshot. I was able to choose a backup dataset with no problem from the "Select backup devices" dialog as you show in the screenshot. At that time the "Restore Database" dialog box you show in the background had
no backup files, you show filetest1, filetest2. However after clicking the "Add" to files were listed in the "Restore Database" dialog neither of which was the one that I was trying to add. The problem was that the wrong files were listed in the "Restore Database"
dialog and I couldn't remove them.
The problem turned out to be two issues. I resolved the problem as follows:
It turned out that someone had compressed my server c:\ drive and I was not aware of it. Disk compression and SQL server have conflicts. As I had never compressed a drive I didn't know that Windows Explorer displays compressed files in blue letters. So the
first step was to decompress the drive. Which did not fix the problem.
What had caused the files to show up was that I had somehow created a backup with two data sets in it. It seems that when SQL Server creates a backup one of the first things it does is check the drive for the required space and create an empty backup file
the size of the backup to reserve the disk space. It seems that I had created a file that contained space for a backup but no data with another back with data behind it. When I looked at the backup file size in explorer it was almost twice the size it should
have been.
I resolved the problem by changing the path of the default backup folder. I was able to do a restore from there. Afterwords the default backup folder worked and the files listed were no longer there.
Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the help.
Martin Mann

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