Tutorials/Copy with drag & drop

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Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop with a 2nd USB-stick

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• A Booted Trisquel 5.0-sugar CD was used for these examples

Note these screen-shots were Drag-Dropped to a 2nd USB-stick

Copied from the USB to another Computer and uploaded to the Sugarlabs.wiki

Where it was inserted into this page

• You can import and export items from the sugar journal Using this procedure :
• Insert a 2nd USB

(required to be present for this to work)

• Start the Write-Application
• highlight the desired lines in the Write-Application

External link^

This also works in other applications like: terminal or your browser

click the scissors up icon (copy) on the top bar

• Extend the frame (upper right corner with mouse)
• click on the journal icon on the top frame

move to the bottom left edge of frame

• right click on clipping icon on the left bottom edge of frame

hover on this icon select Keep which appears

• retract frame

(move mouse to center of the screen)

• bottom bar shows journal and 2nd USB-stick icons

• drag the new clipping listed in the journal icon with mouse right button depressed

to the 2nd USB-stick icon now showing in bottom bar next to journal icon

• hover over the USB-stick icon

• Select remove on Drop-down menu (Safely remove USB-Stick)

• remove USB-stick from computer running sugar
• insert USB-stick into another windows or linux computer and drag file on USB-stick to the your desktop

(or into host system by removing and re-inserting USB-stick after exiting sugar)

• open and copy this file to a paste bin application in your browser

export Photos

drag-drop to a 2nd USB-stick can be used to export Photos created with the sugar record activity from the journal.

import/install <activity>.xo file

drag-drop an <activity.xo> file from a 2nd USB-stick to the Journal.

Download site for <activity>.xo files

See the Activities link on wiki top bar

Sugar_Creation_Kit#ASLOxo-6 DVD.iso with 400+ activities

Can be used as a Drag Drop source

The Sugar Creation Kit wiki on a USB-stick

Intended to be run where there is NO Internet Connection Available.

Successfully tested on a G1G1 XO-1 running os508dx - (Dextrose2)

Screen capture

<Alt> + 1 or <PrtScn> (when present) captures the screen and stores a screenshot in the Journal.

• How to take Screen Shots with a cursor from an XO-1 or live fedora CD
• How to take Screen Shots on a Mac Useful for sugar applications running in VirtualBox for OSX
• Comment: An important use case for the Keep button. How do we store just the image, without the software state? Some Activities, including Turtle Art, have a button for this purpose.
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