Re: [Tuxpaint-users] XO laptop saved docs location

[Bill K. <nb...@so...>]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 05:59:00PM -0800, Steve Schaefer wrote:
>    Hi all,
>    My 5-yr-old son and I are using the TuxPaint activity on an XO Laptop (he
>    loves it!), and I'm looking in the usual place where the saved artwork
>    would be: (HOME)/.tuxpaint/saved/
>    But I'm not seeing a (HOME)/.tuxpaint/ directory on my XO.
>    The home directory path is /home/olpc/, which just has Activities -- I've
>    searched thru the tuxpaint directory there a little, but my linux skills
>    are poor, and so far I'm not seeing it.

Files and folders that begin with "." are normally hidden from view by
file browsers and the output of the "ls" command.

If you do "ls -al" in the home directory, you'll spot it, if it's there.
If you're using a graphical file browser, check to see if it has a
"Show Hidden Files & Folders" kind of option.

In any case, regardless of if you can see it, you should still be
able to access it.  e.g., if you issue this command in a terminal:

  cd ~/.tuxpaint/saved/

it should work, if the directory is there.  (Then just do "ls" or "ls -l"
to see the files -- they're PNG format.)


>    Anyone know where the saved drawing files are stored?
>    Thanks in advance!
>    :^)

I can't _guarantee_ that that's where they go.  (I had an XO for a while,
but no time, and less and less inclination to play with it, so I gave
it to a friend.)  But I'm guessing that's where.  If Albert C. is out
here, he can confirm or deny, since I believe he made the XO version.

>    (P.S. Is there a way to search the tuxpaint-users list archives (e.g., for
>    the word XO)? I'm not familiar with the sourceforge archive system.)

Blah, I think the only archives they provide is via the 'forum' web pages.

Ah, but I see a "Search" link in the "Mailing Lists" popup menu that's
across the orange top part of the page.  That leads here:

  https://sourceforge.net/search/?group_id=66938&type_of_search=mlists

On that page, you can search for keywords or phrases on one or more of the
project's mailing lists.  I did a search for "XO" on the 'tuxpaint-users' list,
which returned the results found here:

  https://sourceforge.net/search/index.php?group_id=66938&search_subject=1&search_body=1&type_of_search=mlists&all_words=&exact_phrase=XO&some_word=&without_words=&ml_name[]=tuxpaint-users&posted_date_start=&posted_date_end=&form_submit=Search

(Well, it's actually giving me an unhappy face an a timeout error, but perhaps
it'll work when you try it.)

Good luck!

-- 
-bill!
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