Scripts in attachments aren't saved

[Paul Hexem]

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-6273

Found this bug tonight. Hours after a script was finished, getting logged off completely deleted the script. I'd call that a pretty severe bug in the system.

[Sassy Romano]

You had never had this happen before? I've lost plenty like that. I make a point of detaching and re-attaching regularly so as to cause changes to be serialized back to inventory.

 

Just as annoying is making a script change, then drag that script from worn attachment to inventory. You'll get a copy of the script without current changes.

 

I guess it all relates to the fact that worn items are just a temporary copy until serialized .

[Paul Hexem]

It's absolutely insane that it works that way, is what the JIRA is about.

[Sassy Romano]

Yes, see if you can find the JIRA about attachments not saving the object name when renamed via script while worn. They're kinda related.

[Darien Caldwell]

It's not 100% chance for loss. About 80% of the time, it will be saved. But 20% chance of losing your work means it's just best practice to never script in a worn attachment. Rez it on the ground instead to work.

[Paul Hexem]

Except when you're scripting an attachment to behave as an attachment and you need to see if it works as an attachment... Scripting it on the ground won't work.

You have to remember to detach the attachment in order to save your work that you intend to use as an attachment...

Because according to LL, it's "not practical" to save the status of attachments while attached at all, because "some change many times per second".

[Qie Niangao]

It's a grand pain in the butt, especially before one knows it happens. Even then, it's a pain, although in the cosmic scope of all the things that are a pain about scripting, it's one of those happy cases where it's possible to work around it, however annoying that workaround is.

(Someday I'll post the whole story of failing to work around an insanely obscure bug in Linden plants, of all things. But not just now, because I'm busy failing to install Windows 8.1 because computers are the devil's devices.)

[Sharie Criss]

Due to this highly unreliable situation edititing attached scripts, I wrote a quick little backup tool that takes a copy of the scripts in your attachment and saves it in a rezzed backup prim. It's saved my butt a few times. Contact me in-world and I'll send you a full perm copy if you want it.