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== Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop | == Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop from a 2nd USB-stick== | ||
'''Note: After user feedback this page is UNDER CONSTRUCTION''' | '''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--[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 22:22, 19 January 2012 (EST) | :I will try to simplify the examples to clarify How to use Drag-Drop in Sugar--[[User:Satellit|Satellit]] 22:22, 19 January 2012 (EST) | ||
*A Booted Trisquel 5.0-sugar CD was used for these examples | *A Booted Trisquel 5.0-sugar CD was used for these examples | ||
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::Copied from the USB to another Computer and uploaded to the Sugarlabs.wiki | ::Copied from the USB to another Computer and uploaded to the Sugarlabs.wiki | ||
::Where it was inserted into this page | ::Where it was inserted into this page | ||
* | ===Export items from the sugar Journal=== | ||
* | *import and export items from the sugar [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|'''journal''']] Using this procedure : | ||
:'''required to be | *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. | ||
*bottom | [[File:Example.jpg]] | ||
*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 | |||
[[File:Example.jpg]] | |||
*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.) | |||
*[[Talk:Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Drag-Drop#How_to_Make_screen-shots_on_a_Mac| How to take Screen Shots on a Mac]] Useful for sugar applications running in VirtualBox for OSX | *[[Talk:Sugar_Creation_Kit/sck/Drag-Drop#How_to_Make_screen-shots_on_a_Mac| 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. | *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. |