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I Can’t Find My Things!
When you live in an apartment in SL or on someone else’s land, your things can get returned to you by the owner or other officer.
This article explains how to find the things that were returned to you.
When things get returned to you, they go into your Inventory’s Lost and Found folder. SL groups your things together and changes the names of your things, making it harder for you to find them. When SL groups things, it is called coalescing. The following explains coalescing and how to find your things…..
(NOTE: The text in this article is based an article in the Second Life Support Portal)
Missing Inventory: Coalesce Feature
The Coalesce feature activates when a group of objects get returned at the same time. Before a group of objects are returned, they are stuffed into a one or more objects, then returned to your inventroy.
How to find missing
- Click the Inventory button.
- Inside of the Inventory window, select “Sort” and then select “By Name”
- Now select “Sort” and then select “By Date” (This makes sure the inventory is sorted by date).
- Locate and open your Lost And Found folder.
- Take the first object in your Lost And Found folder, drag it out. A public sandbox may be a good place to do this.
- From top to bottom, work through the list of objects located in the Lost And Found folder until the missing objects are found.
It’s possible that your things could rez above or below you. This is important when you are in an apartment or some other place that is inside. It is best to do this when you are someplace on the ground. Float up a little so that you can see if your things rez above the ground.
The rest of this notecard gives you an example about how the features works - it’s not necessary to read this to find your things…
A resident is renting land from a landlord and has the following objects on their rented land:
* House
* Kitchen sink
* Table
* Chair
* Object
Later this Resident decides to move and ask their Landlord to return all objects owned by them. The Landlord complies and returns all objects to the Resident.
The Resident checks their inventory and the objects are missing! Or are they?
When these objects were returned, they were stuffed into one or more objects, then placed back into the Resident’s inventory.
These coalesced objects will inherit the name of one of the objects that they contain. In this case the object could be named house, kitchen sink, chair, fork or object.