After today's update tlmgr fails to clean updates. Here's what I get on a Win7 machine: ,---- | C:\>tlmgr backup newtx | saving current status of newtx to C:/Programme1/texlive/2018/tlpkg/backups/newtx.r47889.tar.lz4 | | C:\>tlmgr backup --clean=0 --all | | C:\> `---- After this the backup file newtx.r47889.tar.lz4 is still there. -- Uwe