[sldev] SL Database purge

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Thomas Grimshaw <tom at streamsense.net> wrote:
>
>  "Hi.  Not so great news, I'm afraid. I talked to the project manager on
> Inventory Management, and was informed that on September 12, 2007, they ran
> a program that collected unused objects and removed them from the database.
> "Any older objects which [you] didn't rez between then and early December
> (during which time they would have been automatically recovered) could be
> candidates" for the category "missing from database", and unfortunately are
> not recoverable. (This is true for the 4 I tried to rez from my own
> inventory, as well -- and no doubt many others.) That will apply anywhere in
> SL, not just your own regions.  Rowan"
>
>  How on earth can LL justify this? With no warning or announcement? Don't
> worry folks, just rez your entire inventory every 2 months and you won't
> lose anything..

That's not how asset purges work at all - support misunderstood.

The assets that get purged are ones that aren't in anyone's inventory
any longer, aren't contained in any objects, aren't clearly referenced
from scripts (as with a hard-coded asset ID), etc. There are problems
with missing assets, which we're looking at. But there is absolutely
no system that intentionally destroys items that are still in your
inventory.