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<nices...@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.co...@gmail.com> >> Subject: [Sugar-devel] Need Help: usb drive not visible in the journal >> To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org, de...@lists.laptop.org, Tomeu >> Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> >> Message-ID: >> <b694aa9e0908010346o43d6ed38i2bbf01afaf59b...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel