[sldev] SL Database purge

[Jesse Barnett]

But I had a freind who's great aunt had a nephew who worked with a guy that
knew someone that heard it from a freind that said a Linden told him it was
true.;)
On 4/28/08, Soft <soft at lindenlab.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
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