Tutorials/Copy with drag & drop
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Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop from 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 items 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.
- 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;
- and hold down the mouse 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.
- This is a Drag-Drop export to the 2nd USB-stick
Import to Sugar Journal
- is done just the opposite way:
- click on a file (picture or .xo file) on the 2nd USB that pops up when you click on it's icon in the left bottom corner.
- drag it with the mouse to the journal icon in the bottom left corner. A + will appear as it is added to the journal.
- Hold down the right mouse button as you drag the file to the Journal icon in the left bottom corner.
- When you go to (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.
- (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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