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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1747857"><p>Most of your files should be in your Home folder. In Finder, it's the one in the sidebar with a little house for an icon. You should not put anything in any other place. However, if you want a current backup, that would also include certain application configuration files, mostly plists, that have the latest information of the configuration of the application, or your Preferences for that application. Those could be anywhere on the drive, but most will still be in that Home folder for you. </p><p></p><p>So, if all you want is to see the dates of your files, use Finder in the list view and click on the "Date Modified" column header to sort them by date. Clicking on that header will sort them in ascending date (oldest first) and descending date (newest first). From there you can see which files have been modified.</p><p></p><p>But as Patrick says, that is a major bit of work to get hat all sorted out and to get every folder checked for what has changed. You would be much better served using a true backup software application, even Time Machine (free with the OS) that does EXACTLY that, backs up what changed since the last backup, or CCC as Patrick pointed to, that does the same thing, or ChronoSync that also will keep two locations synced with all changes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1747857"] Most of your files should be in your Home folder. In Finder, it's the one in the sidebar with a little house for an icon. You should not put anything in any other place. However, if you want a current backup, that would also include certain application configuration files, mostly plists, that have the latest information of the configuration of the application, or your Preferences for that application. Those could be anywhere on the drive, but most will still be in that Home folder for you. So, if all you want is to see the dates of your files, use Finder in the list view and click on the "Date Modified" column header to sort them by date. Clicking on that header will sort them in ascending date (oldest first) and descending date (newest first). From there you can see which files have been modified. But as Patrick says, that is a major bit of work to get hat all sorted out and to get every folder checked for what has changed. You would be much better served using a true backup software application, even Time Machine (free with the OS) that does EXACTLY that, backs up what changed since the last backup, or CCC as Patrick pointed to, that does the same thing, or ChronoSync that also will keep two locations synced with all changes. [/QUOTE]
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