How do I get Time Machine to backup my desktop?

Hi, new here - Time Machine used to back up my desktop files but for some reason it's not doing it now. Any ideas?

trash the file /library/preferences/com.apple.time machine.plist. that's the library at the top level of the drive, not in your home directory. then go to TM system preferences and set up TM again. then restart in safe mode once. reboot and hold shift at the chime then restart normally and do a TM backup. see if it backs up the desktop now. restarting in safe mode forces TM to rescan the whole disk for changes on the next backup.

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