[solved] Using MX Snapshot

[Adrian]

if you included your home folder in the snapshot, then everything in your home folder is in the snapshot.

Except Virtualbox virtual machines (if you have any), but default we exclude those because they are usually huge.

[fehlix]

and (2) why does the Snapshot give both the iso and the md5 and sha512 files? Why these two hashes? What and why do I need to verify (and how) given that I now have a snapshot of my own system, not something I downloaded that might be bogus?

Both md5sum and sha512 files are just for re-checking / verifying the ISO is not corrupt - later when you want to use it again.
E.g. you save the ISO somewhere on a USB or another drive, and later you try to use the ISO again,
but it can happen that the storage device is itself not working properly. E,g invalid sectors on the drive or USB.
So you can always verify using md5sum or sha512sum, that the ISO is still intact this way:
Open terminal within the folder you saved the ISO and the md5sum/sha512sum-files and run:

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md5sum --check ./ISO-filename.iso.md5

an/or

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sha512sum --check ./ISO-filename.iso.sha512

Those file are just one-liner text-files holding the checksum and the ISO-filename
The "./" in front of the ISO-file is the current directory "."
Both tools report "OK" success or failure, and this would proof the ISO is ok,
and probably the storage medium also.