Hello, First of all, thanks for all the answers! I decided to follow your advices and implement the saving feature of my activity through the journal. Although it's not working perfectly yet, I hope it will be soon. I'm just having a little problem with the keep button. My activity creates the journal entry like it should when I exit through the close button, but when I press the keep button, it doesn't create the entry. Is there any big differences in how the keep and close button access the journal to save the state of the activity? Also, related to the sugar-emulator, sometimes, when I close it, all the journal entries are wiped. I suspect this is an emulator problem ( because not only it happened with my activity, but also with other activities ), but I'd like to be sure I'm not doing anything wrong! Thanks again, Alberto Arruda de Oliveira <div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/20 Alberto Arruda de Oliveira <<a href="mailto:alberto.a.oliv@gmail.com">alberto.a.oliv@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I've been adapting an application to use as an activity, and I have some questions about the way to save on sugar. At first, I tried to just create a directory inside my Activity folder especially made for saving files, but it did not work, because of the access permissions to it, and, although we could simply manually change the folder permission for writing on that folder, we would have to do it for every single OLPC we installed our activity into and we didn't want that. Then, we started trying with the journal. Everything was going fine, until we discovered that another sugar activity, Scratch, implemented saving and loading on a similar fashion we previously wanted. It has a folder inside it's Activity directory with subdirectories related to each kind of Scratch project. Also, Scratch's Activity directory has the same access permission as any other sugar Activity installed. So, my question is, does anyone knows how Scratch implements it's save / loading method? is there any guide explaining how to do it without using the journal? Keep in mind that we do know that there are other directories we could use to save our files, but we would like to use our Activity directory if possible. Thanks in advance ( and sorry for any english mistakes :] ), Alberto Arruda de Oliveira </blockquote></div>