Tutorials/Copy with drag & drop

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Exporting files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop to 2nd USB-stick

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

• 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)

• highlight the desired lines in terminal or browser

click the scissors up icon (copy) on the top bar

Click on Figure ^ to enlarge it

Browsers <== Back arrow to return

• open the frame (upper right corner with mouse)
• click on the journal icon on to frame

move to the bottom left edge of frame

Click on Figure ^ to enlarge it

Browsers <== Back arrow to return

• 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

Click on Figure ^ to enlarge it

Browsers <== Back arrow to return

• 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

Click on Figure ^ to enlarge it

Browsers <== Back arrow to return

• 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.