#4409 NORM Never A: Journal won't show me SimCity.xo file on USB stick

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#4409: Journal won't show me SimCity.xo file on USB stick
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 Reporter:  gnu               |       Owner:  tomeu                            
     Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Never Assigned                   
Component:  journal-activity  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                    |    Verified:  0                                
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 B4, 611, Q2D01.

 I put a file called !SimCity.xo on a 2GB CompUSA USB stick on a normal
 laptop, umounted, put it onto the XO.  Eventually the XO notices and
 mounts it (I can see this in the dev console).  When I go into the
 Journal, a USB icon appears on the bottom row, and if I hover over it,
 "COMPUSA / Unmount" appears.  But clicking on the USB icon doesn't do
 anything.  The rest of the screen does not change.  I can't see my file
 from the USB stick.

 I recommend that we provide an ordinary file browser, of the Nautilus
 sort, so that users will have a GUI for navigating the file system and
 their own files on external media.  Whatever the Journal might be good
 for, it surely isn't good for this.

 (I was trying to install this !SimCity game as a new application, on SJ's
 advice that if it had a ".xo" extension, the Journal could install it for
 me.  He suggested downloading it in the Web browser, serving it up with
 that extension.  I thought surely a USB key should work, and be simpler,
 since the originating web site did NOT offer the file with a .xo
 extension.  Silly me...)

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