Inventory Blues?

(Made a page out of this post so it won’t fade away)

I have a simple program for you to follow that is sure to improve your Second Life experience. This is a simple program and I am certain anyone can follow this easily. Just follow the instructions and memorize the process.

Repeat After Me (As many times as necessary to remember it all):

If I use the pie menu to drop or wear anything I know I will lose the items involved. Every Time.
I will not use the pie menu to drop anything.
I will not use the pie menu to wear anything.
I will only rez to ground from Inventory and then take back to inventory.
I will only wear/attach from inventory.
When a new viewer is released I will follow this procedure without fail:
1. I will save my logs to a backup location
2. I will uninstall the old viewer
3. I will delete the old roaming Second Life folder
4. I will clear temp.
5. I will empty the trash/recycle folder.
6. I will install the new client run as administrator.
7. I will uncheck the remember me option so my valuable password will not be xor’d with my mac id and left on disk for easy black hat conference attendee pickings.
8. I will set my preferences before logging in for some things, like voice, are turned on by default and use more bandwidth causing my greedy ISP to become disgruntled.
9. I will press ctrl-shift-g to enable the grid selector.
10. I will select the grid named aditi for this is the beta grid.
11. I will log in to beta grid. Before logging into main grid.
12. I will open inventory and click recent to force a inventory fetch.
13. I will wait. I will wait for the inventory to finish fetching completely.
14. I will then log out of aditi.
15. I will select agni from the grid selector for agni is the live main grid.
16. I will log into the agni grid.
17. I will open inventory and click the recent tab to force a fresh inventory fetch.
18. I will not log off till the inventory fetch completes.
19. I will check all of my preferences and make sure they are set to my liking.
20. I will enable the advanced menu by pressing ctrl-shift-alt-d
21. I will select debug settings from the advanced menu.
22. In the debug settings panel i will type rendervol and then in the setting box for the arcanely named rendervolumeLODFactor setting I will enter a 4 or more depending on how good my video card is so stuff doesn’t look like garbage zoomed out.
23. I will log out to ensure my settings are *all* saved correctly.
24. I will then log in to Second Life and enjoy Second Life with all my inventory and stuff looking right.
25. I will try to organize my inventory so there is never more than 255 items in any folder.
26. (optional) I will remember to snarkily remind any Linden in site that those two options, drop and wear, need to be removed from the pie menu like the release button from the screen had to go.

See it is easy!
Follow this simple plan and your SLustration level will drop to the level reserved for rippers, general stupidity, griefers, and drama with an occasional mainland frustration for we cannot control that experience at all.

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