[Sugar-devel] Journal and filenames on USB disks - more leases.sig problems

Edward Cherlin echerlin at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 13:50:50 EDT 2009


Better way: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities#Midnight_Commander

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Martin
Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to get leases.sig from the XS to the USB stick. On 8.2.x,
> Browse.xo saves the file as
>
>   File leases.sig from http://...
>
> ... two possible ways to move next.
>
> Copy and rename
>
>  1 - Insert (fat-formatted) USB stick, once mounted copy the file to
> the USB stick. Check on Terminal indicates that the file has the LFN
> we expect ("File leases.sig from http://...").
>
>  2 - Switch to the 'USB disk' view of the Journal.
>
>  3 - Rename the file to leases.sig . A check from the commandline
> shows that the file has not been renamed. Oops?. The Journal only
> renames the metadata. Bug?
>
> Rename and copy
>
>  1 - Rename the file in the Journal to 'leases.sig'
>
>  2 - Insert (fat-formatted) USB stick, once mounted copy the file to
> the USB stick. The Journal reports that the file is called lease.sig.
> From terminal I can see that the file is called lease.sig.txt . Bug?
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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