Can I inventory delete textures without breaking customers i shipped product to ?

[Restless Swords]

I need to cleanup my inventory, it is a worse mess than my RL garage.

- I have build product and shipped to marketplace customers

 

What if during my cleanup I delete a texture that I used in a product build?

- is it already fully embedded into the product I shipped to customers?

- or if I delete that texture will their products suddenly be missing its texture?

 

I am fairly sure I can delete, but wanted to be sure

- which I guess implies that SL keeps old (used) textures forever?  even worse than TV horders.

 

[Rolig Loon]

In theory, you're right.  Your inventory is nothing more than a sort of index to the various objects in SL's asset servers that you have permission to use..  If you delete an item, it's still in the servers for other people to use.  There are at least two practical reasons for holding onto a texture that you have used in a product for sale, though:

1.  You may decide to turn out a new version of the product at some future time, and you may need the textures to do it.  I have redesigned old builds several times, so I have been glad that I saved my old textures.

2.  One of your customers (or you) might do something unforgivably stupid like retexturing a wall without saving a backup first.  (OK, I've done that too.)  It's good to have your own backups for just such an emergency.

[Amethyst Jetaime]

I would never delete a texture unless it turned out to be a poor quality one and I know I'll never use it.  .  You can always put them in t a prim and label it 'texture archive" or something you will remember, to reduce the amount of them floating around in inventory.