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

Note: After user feedback this page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION

I will try to simplify the examples to clarify How to use Drag-Drop in Sugar--Satellit 22:22, 19 January 2012 (EST)

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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.

click on the journal icon under the XO AVATAR in the (f3) Home screen
Move the mouse cursor to center of the screen.
bottom left edge of screen shows journal and 2nd USB-stick

drag a file in the List above the Journal 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 and release the right mouse button. A + will briefly appear

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.

Summary

A brief synopsis of the process:

1)You need a 2nd USB-stick inserted in a USB slot before you begin.
2)Click on the journal icon under the XO Avitar in f3 (Home) screen.
3)move the mouse cursor to the center of the screen.
4)In the left bottom of the sugar screen will be 2 USB icons
  - Journal
  - 2nd USB
5)click on the file in the journal listing that pops up when you click on the icon in the left bottom corner; 
and hold down the mouse as you drag the entry to the 2nd USB Icon next to it on the bottom left  corner.
6) release the mouse button when you are over the 2nd USB Icon and a + will appear.
This is a Drag-Drop export to the 2nd USB-stick

Import to Sugar Journal is done just the opposite way:

1) click on a picture or .xo file on the 2nd USB that pops up when you click on the icon in the left bottom corner.
2) drag it with the mouse to the journal icon in the bottom left corner. A + will appear as it is added to the journal.

When you go to (f3) Home Screen and click on the journal the new item will be in the journal.

Plus if it was an activity.xo file It will be installed.

(The drag-drop process in sugar does a hidden conversion of the journal files to ones that will work on a USB. It seems to be the only way to do an import/export in Sugar.)

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