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

[sumit singh]

Hi Jim ,

Thanx a lot for your help. It worked. I was completely unaware of
anything like that.

Regards,
sumit

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Jim Simmons<nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>        Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>
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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
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