Forcing recovery to an earlier version

I have a number of backups on a system, taken on different days.
Since these are installation/tests I sometimnes don't want the latest backup but need to go to a prior version.
However, even renaming the directories, etc does not be sufficient. How can I force XE to pick up the last but one backup?
Do I have to physically remove all the files from the recovery area. Is there anything else I need to do?
OS=Windows XE
DB =XEUniversal

Do I have to physically remove all the files from the
recovery area. Is there anything else I need to do? Looks ok to me. Another option would be copying the necessary backup files to another location and use that path in the restore script.
C.

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