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== Exporting/Importing files from the sugar-journal with Drag-Drop from a 2nd USB-stick==
== Copying to a USB drive from the Sugar Journal ==
How to copy from the [[Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/The_Journal|Sugar Journal]] to a USB drive.
*[[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
* Insert your USB drive, being careful not to move the USB drive that is already there,
*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.
* Display the Journal, by either pressing F5 once, or pressing <alt-tab> until the Journal appears, or by clicking on the Journal icon in the '''Home''' view.
{{:Nav-Tutorials}}
* On the bottom left in the tray of the Journal is a Journal icon, and icons for other disk drives mounted or attached to the computer.
* Click on the Journal icon.
* Click on the entry you want to copy,
* Hold down the left mouse button, move the mouse to the icon for the target USB drive, and then release the left mouse button. The copy should begin.
*'''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.'''
[[File:Screenshot_of_Journal_dd.png|500px]]
* Click on the icon for the USB drive, the contents are listed showing the copied item.
* '''Use the ← left________________________right → links in the colored bar below
[[File:Screenshot_of_2nd_USBdd.png|500px]]
== Copying to the Sugar Journal from a USB drive ==
* Display the Journal.
* Click on the icon for the source disk drive, the contents are listed.
* Click on the file you want to copy.
* Hold down the left mouse button, move the mouse to the icon for the Journal, and then release the left mouse button. The copy should begin.
* Click on the icon for the Journal, the contents are listed showing the copied file.
If the file was an Activity.xo file, it will be automatically installed, and will appear in the '''Home''' view.
== Safely remove a USB drive ==
How to safely remove a portable USB drive.
* Display the Journal,
* Right-click on the USB drive icon, and click on '''Remove'''.
[[File:Screenshot_of_Sugar_Journal_Pop_upDD.png|500px]]
* Take the USB drive out of the computer, being careful to only take out the USB drive that went through the '''Remove''' step.
== Conversion ==
The drag-drop copy in Sugar converts the Journal files to ones that will work on a USB.
*Or from the terminal using sugar-install-bundle.
== Copy to/from Journal Scripts ==
* [[OLPC:Copy to and from the Journal]]
: Downloadable scripts to move files to/from the Journal.