On 25.08.2011, at 04:27, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

>> When you use an activity from an USB or SD card..The activity is copied to 
>> the system.
> 
> Not in my experience.
> 
> I've been using Activities from an SD card for four years now, and Sugar has 
> NEVER copied those to the system (ie, to the flash memory).

If you click a .xo bundle, Sugar *will* unpack it into ~/Activities.

If you unpack it onto an SD Card yourself, Sugar will not see it. Unless ...

> [Before I start Sugar, I've set up pointers (in /home/olpc/Activities) to 
> where the (unpacked) activity files actually reside.]

... you manually do this step to make Sugar think it was installed in a regular 
way.

In any case, the activity would still write to the Journal unless it has 
specific support to write somewhere else.

- Bert -


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