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I've done this exact thing with these same tools, as recently as this morning.

I use strace to measure file access sometimes; trouble is, a lot of programs/libraries will attempt to look for a lot of files that don't need to exist, so combing through the strace logs can be a long slog too. In theory, I could have written a script that would correlate those logs with paths that actually exist in my host filesystem. In practice, generally I do the same 1-2-3 dance you describe and only supplement that with strace when I'm stumped.