I wanted to restore a partition image the other day using the latest version 2.7.1-22 on a USB drive and it didn’t even offer the restore parts option. I selected the Clonezilla directory like I always did and dropped to the command line and did a ls /home/partimage/ and it didn’t include the Clonezilla directory only the root of that drive. I googled and found a few mentions of this problem from years past. My older DVD version 2.4.7-8 did display the restore parts option.
I’m guessing it was because the Save format changed. It looked in the directory and not finding a valid Save image didn’t offer the restore option. However I saw nothing about that in my Googling. Only explanations that ‘/home/partimage/’ should be pointing at the clonezilla image. Surely I’m not the 1st person that tried to restore an older image!
If the above paragraph is true then IMHO it’s an example of a programmer trying to be too smart. I’d much rather be allowed to choose the content of my chosen directory. And only then tell me it’s not a valid image. Better yet tell me it’s an obsolete image.
Then today I decided to use the new version to save my new Linux Mint 20.1 partition. Right after, I went through the procedure again and sure enough it offered the restore parts option. And showed the Contents of that directory along with 2 older obsolete images. I’m guessing they wouldn’t work if I tried to select them.