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
Note:For All Screen-shots:
Click on Screen-shot to enlarge it
Use your Browsers <== Back arrow to return
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)
highlight the desired lines in Write;terminal or browser-applications
click the scissors up icon (copy) on the top bar
open 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 USB icon
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 a <activity.xo> file from a 2nd USB-stick to the Journal.
Screen capture
<Alt> + 1 or <PrtScn> (when present) captures the screen and stores a screenshot in the Journal.
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.