[Sugar-devel] Need Help: usb drive not visible in the journal

[Jim Simmons]

Sumit,

I've experienced this on my own XO.  One thing I've found that helps
in this situation is to remove the hidden file that Sugar puts on the
drive.  I think it's named .olpc, but in any case it begins with a
period.  Sometimes if this file is present the thumb drive will not
appear to be mounted in the Journal, and other times you may have new
content on the drive copied from a non-Sugar environment and it won't
show up in the Journal.  Removing this file can fix both problems.  In
any case, it should not harm anything.    You can use the Terminal
Activity to do it.

James Simmons


> Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 16:16:39 +0530
> From: sumit singh <sumit.coder at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Need Help: usb drive not visible in the journal
> To: sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org, devel at lists.laptop.org,    Tomeu
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> Hi all,
>
> I am facing a sort of weird problem at this point. On my xo, my usb
> drives are not visible in the journal. I mean the icons at the bottom
> of the journal are not visible. However, to my surprise my usb
> drives(pendrives) are mounted and I can access them from the terminal.
> I have tested it with 3 pen drives so I don't think its due to my pen
> drive. Moreover, these pen drives are not even visible in the
> objectChooser widget when I invoke it through any of the xo activities
> like write or paint.
>
> Can anybody please suggest me a solution. Moreover, is there any way
> to access the data in the journal through the terminal, I mean there
> are many activities which saves data into the journal and I am in
> severe need to access that data. Is there any way to do so. I got this
> link-  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Copy_to_and_from_the_Journal#Copy_from_Journal_script
> , but I think the names of files are hashed and I won't be able to
> recognize my file in this case.
>
> Kindly give your suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> sumit