Tutorials/Copy with drag & drop

Exporting files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop to 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
  • 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.