#4422 BLOC First D: Record doesn't open in joyride

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#4422: Record doesn't open in joyride
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  Reporter:  kimquirk         |       Owner:  erikb                 
      Type:  defect           |      Status:  new                   
  Priority:  blocker          |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
 Component:  camera-activity  |     Version:                        
Resolution:                   |    Keywords:  tomeu                 
  Verified:  0                |  
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Changes (by marco):

 * cc: tomeu (added)
  * keywords:  => tomeu


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:5 erikb]:
 > Let me rephrase: what has changed in sugar so that this line of code no
 longer works?

 Sugar launch activities so that current directory is inside the bundle.
 i.e. inside /usr/share... Before I think it was /. If you try to write
 into "tmp" you are actually writing inside /usr/share/.../tmp. Whatever
 you do, you clearly don't want to use relative paths there.

 > At start of the activity, I create "self.tempPath", and it is into this
 location that I save copies of all media that comes into the activity
 (photos from camera, photos from the mesh).  When write_file is called, I
 use these paths to save data to the datastore.

 Are these files sticking around? Or they get written and immediately moved
 into the datastore?

 > Advise.  Thanks!

 Here is what sugar seem to be doing:

 {{{
 file_path = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), '%i' % time.time())
 }}}

 Tomeu, can you explain the rationale for using tmpfs there. AFAICT we are
 just doing a move there, which should not trash the disk nor be slow.

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