Copy to and from the Journal

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Copy to Journal Script

The copy-to-journal.py script written by Reinier Heeres and Phil Bordelon allows you to copy files from the Linux filesystem into to the Sugar Journal.

Once you've gotten the script (see below), start the Terminal Activity, and type 

copy-to-journal.py FILENAME -g -t TITLE

But replace:

  • FILENAME with the name you saved in the filesystem,
  • TITLE with the name you want in the journal.

-g means *guess* the mime-type (via the file command). If you want to specify the mime-type explicitly, just add -m MIMETYPE instead of -g

Copy from Journal script

The copy-from-journal.py script allows you to copy files from the Sugar Journal to the Linux filesystem.

Once you've gotten it (see below), start the Terminal Activity, and type 

copy-from-journal.py -t NAME

But replace NAME with the name you saved in the Journal.

Getting these scripts

767, G1G1v2, and later

Later builds have these scripts already installed in /usr/bin already. You don't need to do anything but just use them, as above.

Older builds

For older builds, get the script by starting the Terminal activity and typing: 

cd /home/olpc 
wget -O copy-to-journal.py  http://tinyurl.com/copytojournal
wget -O copy-from-journal.py http://tinyurl.com/copyfromjournal

...you can then use them by following the directions in the sections above by typing 'python ' (without the quotes) before the beginning of the line with the script, like this: 

python copy-to-journal.py ...
python copy-from-journal.py ...

(the full, non-tinyurl urls are in the links in the previous sections, if you don't trust tinyurl and/or want to cut and paste them (Ctrl-C to copy from Browse's address bar, and Control-Shift-V to paste into the Terminal))


Links

You can find another version of these scripts at http://xoexperience.blogspot.com/2008/02/copy-files-to-and-from-journal.html .

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