Now a universal binary application!
backup list 2.4 no reported bugs (please let me know)
Considerations:
You must select the items in the list with the mouse or keyboard, before you press the "Backup" button. Otherwise no files will be copied into your backup folder. Some people have missed this point and said they had empty folders!
Permission issues: backup list is a simple copy utility. On OSX (Unix), unless you are the "Administrator of your account, you will only have access to your personal Home folder. Items belonging to the system, and other users Home folders will be off limits. thsi means backuplist will not work and you will get an"Access" error if you try to copy files from those areas to your backup folder. If you are not the Adminstrator of your computer, you should then put files in the backup list that are only within your Home folder (this does include all the files on the desktop- but not those inside your The Macintosh HD icon (again, unless they are in your Home folder.) A bit confusing if you aren't use to the OSX Folder structure. You can, of course, change permissions for your system and other files by going to "System Preferences" and clicking on "Accounts". there you can change yourself to Account aministrator, if no one else is already that. That is why I made the first backup location choice, "Home Folder." Other logical choices would be any mounted disc, external drive etc. which should usually allow you access.
All external discs must be in Mac OS extended format (not FAT etc) to work properly with file copying and this applescript application.
Otherwise, things should work well. Remember that backuplist only looks two levels deep when comparing files for backup (to save time) . This just means that if you select a folder in your list for backup, "backup list" compares every item in that folder with the corresponding item (if there is one) in your "Mybackup" folder and copys the item only if it has been updated since last backup. But, it won't go into subfolders and check every item there(ie two levels deep). If anything in that sub folder has been changed it will backup the entire folder.