Gnome-Mplayer Fails to Save Changes

[AmatCoder]

It's difficult to follow a reasoning of "it's easier" for a method which has been shown to lead to undesirable result and requires manual file permission corrections after each restore.

Manual? I just added sudo chown -R tc:staff /home/tc to .profile and all is fine...

Here's a different approach to what you try to achieve:

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/bin/ls -d1 /home/tc/.* >>/opt/.xfiletool2.lst && /bin/ls -d1 /home/tc/* >>/opt/.xfiletool2.lst && sed -i 's/\(.\{1\}\)//;/[./][.]*$/d' /opt/.xfiletool.lst
That should append all files and dirs in /home/tc to .xfiletool.lst and then you can just delete entries from .xfiletool.lst instead of deleting /home/tc and adding single file/dir entries.

Oh, is this easy? I must run that command every time that I want a backup (because new unwanted files could be under /home/ every session) and then I must delete all unwanted entries...

[tinypoodle]

Manual? I just added sudo chown -R tc:staff /home/tc to .profile and all is fine...

That may be fine for you, as long as you backup only files which are really supposed to have tc:staff ownership.
In other case it may impact functionality of certain apps or create potential security risks.
Also, if you add the command to .profile, it will only have an impact on files restored before login.