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

[Steve S. <ste...@st...>]

Thanks, Bill!

When I looked for the hidden~/.tuxpaint/ directory with ls -al, or cd  
~/.tuxpaint/, it wasn't there, so I dusted off my rusty old VA Linux  
brain and after many failed attempts eventually tried

find -iname *tux*|less

and that did it! For anyone else who wants to find her/his kids' XO  
Tuxpaint masterpieces and copy them to a print-enabled machine via  
USB-drive, the location of the saved files is

~/.sugar/default/org.tuxpaint.sugar-is-lame/data/.tuxpaint/saved

For me, I used

df [tells you the name of your USB Drive Directory]
cd ~/.sugar/default/org.tuxpaint.sugar-is-lame/data/.tuxpaint/saved
cp *.png /media/[USBdriveMountDir]
[then go back to Sugar and shutdown to unmount the USB Drive]

Perhaps the directory name says it all! Thanks, Albert C, for wading  
through Sugar and making the XO version of Tuxpaint!

Thanks also Bill, for the link to the mailing list archive search.  
The search server seems to be intermittent, but i'll take it!

:^)

-Steve

On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:08 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote:
>
> 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&al 
> l_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.)
>