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Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop with 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)
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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.
  • click on the journal icon under the XO AVATAR in the (f3) Home screen
  • Move the mouse cursor to center of the screen.
  • bottom left edge of screen shows journal and 2nd USB-stick

 

  • drag a file in the List above the Journal 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 and release the right mouse button. A + will briefly appear

 

  • 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 an <activity.xo> file from a 2nd USB-stick to the Journal.
Download site for <activity>.xo files
See the Activities link on wiki top bar
Sugar_Creation_Kit#ASLOxo-6 DVD.iso with 400+ activities
Can be used as a Drag Drop source
The Sugar Creation Kit wiki on a USB-stick
Intended to be run where there is NO Internet Connection Available.
Successfully tested on a G1G1 XO-1 running os508dx - (Dextrose2):(

Screen capture

<Alt> + 1 or <PrtScn> (when present) captures the screen and stores a screenshot in the Journal.

Summary

  • A brief synopsis of the process:
1)You need a 2nd USB-stick inserted in a USB slot before you begin.
2)Click on the journal icon under the XO Avitar in f3 (Home) screen.
3)move the mouse cursor to the center of the screen.
4)In the left bottom of the sugar screen will be 2 USB icons
  - Journal
  - 2nd USB
5)click on the file in the journal listing that pops up when you click on the 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.
6) 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:
1) click on a picture or .xo file on the 2nd USB that pops up when you click on the icon in the left bottom corner.
2) drag it with the mouse to the journal icon in the bottom left corner. A + will appear as it is added to the journal.
  • When you go to (f3) Home Screen and click on the journal the new item will be in the journal.
Plus if it was an activity.xo file It will be 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.)
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