Browse to a memory stick-where is it?

I have installed picassa 3 on my linpus lite acer netbook and am trying to export some pics to a memory stick in the right hand slot.
But it is the same as many programs where they give you the choice of a destination folder to move a file to with the "browse" heading over a box.
Its easy in windows where you can work back up the tree to my computer and find all the hard drive, a drive , c drive -you all know this.
But on the linpus linux all you seem to get are all the my docs type options plus all the internal file tree structure of programs etc.
I cants see the memory stick i have put in.
It is there when i go to linpus front page and then go to my files- the internal ssd drive is there and the new memory stick is there.
Cant understand why it is not visible when i try and see it in picassa export to option. Can anyone help please.

Just tried a "Save as" option but again given the option of the destination folder but cannot get higher than the desktop ie the new memory stick is not showing as visible.

 

I presume you are talking about a usb memory stick. What you want to do is link it to the My Documents directory.
Open a terminal and type:-
df[enter]
This will show you the device name, capacity, used percent and mount point of the stick. It will be something like /dev/sdb1 and it probably be mounted as /media/disk If unsure which line reports it run the command with and without the stick inserted.

Use the cd command to change to the directory where you want to see the usb contents, for example
cd "/mnt/home/Documents/My Documents" [enter]
and then check where you are with
pwd[enter]
Now link your memory stick at that point with
sudo ln -s /media/disk usbstick [enter]

You now have a subdirectory in My Documents which is called usbstick which contains the contents of the card.
We used the link command with a -s parameter to make it symbolic. That way the machine will not complain if the card is not present when booting up.

I would suggest that you also install a decent file manager. Midnight Commander is text based, but is a two panel display what makes copying and moving files about very easy. It accesses the complete file system and has an integral file editor.
Get if via start menu, system, add/remove software.
If you have not got a proper start menu then have a look at viewtopic.php?f=39&t=4310&start=260. to open up your netbook.

 

Thanks Jimux,
I was using a sd card in thr 5-1 reader but i guess the same procedure applies.
I have tried a few linux modifications from other articles but this looks like another challenge. Will be interesting to see what happens.

 

Yup, procedure is the same. The df command will show where it is mounted.

 

There is another reason that it might not show up. A Windows file format is NTFS, but I don't think linux understands it. There is another windows format called FAT32. This is the one you want, as Linux, Windows and MacOSX all understand it. To format in windows, right click it in My Computer and select format. Select FAT32 from the drop-down list, and click format. WORD OF WARNING: THIS WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE, SO MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A BACKUP.

 

Linux has no problem with NTFS, or any other of the 27 or so common disk formats.. Windows, however, is limited and cannot access files on native Linux drives (ext2, ext3, ext4, reiser) unless the Linux box runs SAMBA to interpret. Some Windows editions also only see lower case file names, but names are case sensitive in Linux.
I do not see what this has to do with your problem, as NTFS bis a network format and would not be used for a memory stick. Depending on their size they may be formatted as FAT16 or FAT32. Linux will see both of these and normally report them as VFAT.

I suggest you use a Linux drive partitioner like gparted to examine your machine and see what the stick is formatted as. This would see both mounted and unmounted partitions. The problem could be that the stick is not automatically mounted, although I have not had this problem on my machine under Linpus, Puppy, Mint or Suse distributions.

 

The most likely place to find it mounted is in a directory under /media. Common names for the directory include the UUID of the memory stick, the volume name of the memory stick, and disk.