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Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop using 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)

• 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

Export from the Sugar Journal

• import and export items from the sugar journal Using this procedure :
• You need a 2nd USB-stick inserted in a USB slot before you begin.

A USB-stick is required to be inserted for this to work.

• Click on the journal icon under the XO Avitar centered in the f3 (Home) screen.

• move the mouse cursor to the center of the screen.
• In the left bottom of the sugar screen will be 2 USB icons

Journal

2nd USB

• click on a file in the journal listing that pops up when you click on the journal icon in the left bottom corner;

hold down the mouse button as you drag the entry to the 2nd USB Icon next to it on the bottom left corner.

• release the mouse button when you are over the 2nd USB Icon and a + will appear.

• click on the 2nd USB icon

Its contents are listed showing the transferred files

• Safely remove the 2nd USB-stick

• Click on "Remove:

This is an an example of how Drag-Drop to/from a 2nd USB-stick is done.

Import to Sugar Journal

Export in reverse

• click on a file from the list on the 2nd USB that pops up when you click on it's icon in the left bottom corner.
• Hold Down the mouse button as you drag the file 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 the (f3) Home Screen and click on the journal the new item will be in the journal.

If the file was an activity.xo file. It will be automatically installed.

• NOTE: 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.

Notes

• 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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