#2056 HIGH Trial-2: Need a way to copy files to a USB stick

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#2056: Need a way to copy files to a USB stick
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  Reporter:  jfuhrer           |       Owner:  tomeu  
      Type:  defect            |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  high              |   Milestone:  Trial-2
 Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:         
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:         
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment (by Eben):

 There are several places we can add support for such a feature.

  - We need to make sure that one can copy items to the Journal and to USB
 via drag'n'drop from the frame.  (You should be able to drop an object
 anywhere within the view of the Journal, not just on the icon in the Tray
 when doing this.)
  - Once we nail down some additional features of the activity toolbar,
 we'll have a "keep" button or menu of some kind.  Here we can easily offer
 "keep in journal" and "keep in USB drive" etc.
  - We'll probably want to add similar keep functionality to the rollover
 palette for any object.  If I rollover an object on the clipboard, in an
 activity, on a bboard, etc. I should be able to keep it wherever I want.

 We also need to make sure that copying ''from'' a USB stick is just as
 easy.  For this purpose, we need to support drag'n'drop from  the USB file
 list onto the Journal icon.  We may also want to add an option to the
 palette for the USB stick providing "keep all in Journal" to copy over
 everything at once.  Finally, we need a way to support selective copying
 of items.  The new Journal design, once implemented, will give us a way to
 check checkboxes on a number of items at once.  We'll have to see how we
 can then invoke a "copy selected" action.

 There is a copy button in the Entry toolbar, but the intent of that was to
 copy to clipboard, and it should probably stay that way.  Perhaps when a
 selection is made, the rollover palette for the USB stick has both "keep
 all in Journal" ''and'' "keep selected in Journal."  That's probably the
 most consistent.  Of course, if you support drag'n'drop from the Journal
 view, multiple item selections should also be draggable.  We'll have to
 come up with a visual design for this, and for dragging selections in
 general.

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