thanks! <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net">tomeu@tomeuvizoso.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Faisal Anwar <<a href="mailto:fanwar@mediamods.com">fanwar@mediamods.com</a>> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know about (or can point me to docs for) the recommended uses of > the data, instance and tmp directories that exist for every activity > (usually found in the  ~myhome/.sugar/default/org.laptop.MyActivity/ > directory)? In particular, I had the following questions: > > - what types of data should be written in each of these three subdirectories > and what is the difference between each? > - Are there specific permissions or ownership issues involved with these > directories. </div><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Writable_Directories" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Writable_Directories</a> <div class="Ih2E3d"> > - When should developers be writing files or data to the datastore and when > should they instead by saving files directly to one of these directories? </div>An activity has to save to the DS all that is required to resume the activity at a later point. You can see this as storing an activity into the freezer, so it can be unfrozen later and resumed. Regards, Tomeu </blockquote></div>