What is the best way to move a sky island to another parcel across the sim?

[Rockridge Constantine]

I am a sim owner and want to know what is the best way to move a sky island across to the other side of the sim?  I should add that this island belonged to a friend who is no longer in SL but I do have his object edit permission so yes I can move it.  Should I make a notation of the x-y-z coordinates and move it like that?

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Rock,

If you don;t have rez & entry permissions on all the parcels between your existing home and your new location AND if you do if there are enough extra prims available for you to "borrow" to do a manual "Select All" move AND You have edit permissions for all the prims on your sky-island build and all it's contents...

You see the issue here?

Best way is to take it back into inventory and build it up again.

FOR THE BRAVE AT HEART: Now as a Region Owner, if the whole region is under your control under a single parcel, then you can:

1) Turn off all limits on the Viewer using the Advanced Options turn off select limits[]

2) Select all the prims to be moved

3) Carefully move the assembly 50m at a time [The viewer limit] without losing the edit highlighting.

4) Park it in it's new location.

I've done this several times and it takes patience.

[Rolig Loon]

If you're even more gutsy than Karen, try this >>> http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-move-a-build/ta-p/919109  .  Try it on stuff you don't mind losing first, and get some sturdy practice with your camera and your Build/Edit tools.   Once you've done it a few times, it's not hard, but it takes nerve the first time.

[Rockridge Constantine]

The link didn't go anywhere

[Rolig Loon]

Really? Let me paste it in again. Try it now.

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Weeeeeeee - Moving sky builds is so fun!

[Lindal Kidd]

To add to KarenMichelle's answer...

You can move things more than 50m at a go if you Disable Camera Constraintsin the Advanced menu and selection limits in the build menu.

When you do this, be darn sure you have selected everything.  Selecting by dragging a box will not select transparent objects unless they are highlighted with CTRL+ALT+T, and will miss objects that are too small to be seen from your camera position.  Cam all around and inside the build, SHIFT+Dragging to select all the bits you missed.

When you are 99% sure you've grabbed everything, then try moving it a little.  If something stays behind, hit CTRL+Z to snap everything back, add the missed bits, and try again.