Lost Inventory

[snazzy Artis]

I removed 300 items from my land it said they would be sent to my lost and found they are not there i have searched every file, but nothing what do i do now

[Charolotte Caxton]

They could all be clumped together. It will look like a bunch of little Orange cubes or like a rubiks cube with some squares missing. The icon in your inventory that is, not the actual items.

[LoveAngeL Lyre]

You removed the items? How? With "Take"? With "Delete" ?  Someone else maybe returned the items to you?

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The first thing to do is to check that they're not hiding in your Lost and Found in the form of a "coalesced object".  If you removed them by returning them all to yourself, they won't have been returned as 300 separate items, but as one collection of objects, identified in your inventory by an icon that looks like a stack of boxes rather than one single one.  

And, which is where the confusion really start, this "coalesced object" will be identified by the name of one of the individual objects contained in it.  So if you return to yourself three objects all at once, "chair", "table" and "TV set",  you'll find in your Lost and Found a coalesced object called "chair" or "table" or "TV set" and no apparent sign of the other two.    See How to Retrieve Coalesced Items for more details.

The really bad news is that you can only rez them all at once and that they'll rez in the same spatial relationships to each other as they were when you returned them -- so if, for example, they were spread out all over an area 64x64 meters when you returned them, you'll need at least as much space to re-rez them and take them back one at a time (when they should end up in the appropriate folders).    You will probably need to find a nice quiet sandbox when you've got a bit of time to undertake this task.

[Rolig Loon]

When you are planning to rez a coalesced object, ALWAYS open your editor (CTRL + 3) first. That way, when the object appears, you will be able to manipulate all of the objects together. If you don't open edit mode first, you may find that it's difficult to move some parts of the coalesced object that rez outside your parcel (which will annoy neighbors, at least) or underground or inside other objects (which will make them very hard to find).

[Innula Zenovka]

A very good point. Thanks, Rolig. I should have mentioned that.