[Bugs] #2407 UNSP: Process to open backup files should be smoother

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#2407: Process to open backup files should be smoother
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    Reporter:  sridhar                    |          Owner:  sascha_silbe               
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  assigned                   
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  Restore                    |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |   Distribution:  OLPC                       
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Comment(by sascha_silbe):

 Replying to [ticket:2407 sridhar]:
 > Comment from [http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-
 nz/2010-September/000807.html OLPC-NZ testing team]:
 >
 > Restore: opened activity and it says "no bundle selected. please close
 this activity and choose a bundle to restore from the journal"
 > Tried to click on the file on the usb that says it is the journal backup
 for this laptop - it seems to open the restore activity but hard to tell
 as not labelled as such in the frame

 Can you include a screenshot and exact information about the build this
 happened in, please? During all my tests Restore was named in the Frame.
 Sugar 0.82 shows just the name of the bundle (e.g. "Journal backup of
 Sascha Silbe (XO-1) (CSNxxxxxxx) on 25.02", more recent versions of Sugar
 show the name of the activity (i.e. "Restore") as well.

 > found a restore journal button in the activity, clicked it and get the
 message "restoring journal from
 > /home/olpc/.sugar/default/data/" a whole lot of numbers then ".xmj"
 > - that file location is not the usb drive, so we assume that opening the
 file on the usb is actually copying it to the journal

 Yes, Sugar will copy entries from external media to the Journal before
 resuming them. There's [ticket:496 no way for an activity to opt out] of
 this.

 [http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-
 US/sugar/addons/versions/4326#version-5 Version 5] contains minimal on-
 screen instructions. More complete instructions are planned (#2372); help
 with this would be appreciated.

 Thanks for testing and reporting issues!

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