Are Stickies backed up by Time Machine?

[Libertine Lush]

Hey all,

I have 3 Stickies on my desktop with a decent amount of text in them. When Time Machine does a backup, does it also backup the contents of the Stickies? If so, which folder is it saved in?

Thanks!

 

[spinnerlys]

Macintosh HD > USERS > yourusername > Library > StickiesDatabase.

If your TM backs up your Library you should find it there on your TM.

 

[Libertine Lush]

Ah! I see it. Thank you.

When I had searched for the word "stickies" in Spotlight, however, it never brought it up. Do you know why that is? Spotlight doesn't find some files that I can manually find myself sometimes.

 

[xUKHCx]

Spotlight doesn't show results from "System Files" group.

If you want to enable the option to show these files in a search (has to be done via the finder search box) then you can follow these steps

Yup there is but it's still pretty annoying. Apple should have it on by default.

Step 1: Go to the Finder Search (Command + F or File > Find)

Step 2: Click on the "Kind" drop-down menu and click on other.
Note: If you don't see this pop up button, then make click on the "+" button right after Save.

Step 3: You'll see a dialog pop up and find System files. Once there, select the checkbox. Now go back to the search Window by clicking on the OK button.

Step 4 Make sure that the System files is selected in the first drop down menu. Now proceed to the Second drop down menu and select "include".

Now you can search for all your system files but don't expect for this to work with spotlight. Furthermore, you'll have to manually do this every time (only step 4 actually) you wish to search for something in your system. Hope this helps!

 

[Libertine Lush]

Thanks a lot, xUKHCx! It definitely finds files I know are around now.

So if I have search "System Files" enabled manually every time, does that mean Spotlight is then finally searching every single file that's on the system? When I click on "Other" in the "Kind" menu and it drops down the menu with the huge array of attributes to search, I'm worried there may be some files still left out, even though I know many of those attribute options, through a quick skim, are merely more about specificity (bits per sample, created date, etc).