I heard the viewer three can erase you inventory. Is this true?

[Leea Sabra]

I heard the the new viewer 3 can erase your inventory.  How can you back up inventory or prevent this?

[Venus Petrov]

I have not heard of V3 erasing inventory.  It is still pretty buggy from what I hear.  If you fear problems, you might wish to install one of the other Third Party Viewers.

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Third_party_viewers#Third-party_Viewers

[valerie Inshan]

V3 may not show your inventory (among the many bugs this viewer has, which in my opinion make it unusable at the moment), but it cannot erase it. Your inventory is saved in your cache files (including those from other viewers) and on LL servers.

Anyway, a useful link:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Inventory_loss

I second Venus: use a TPV until the bugs are fixed. Firestorm looks pretty much like V2 and Firestorm beta allowing mesh has just been released.

[Tristizia Demonista]

There is a simple way to to prevent (any) Viewer to (temporarily) affect your Inventory.

When you log-in, take a few seconds to let your Inventory load COMPLETLY (just open the recent items tab and wait until it stops counting) before you tp or (even worse) log-out again.

Btw, that this is a bug in V3 is a myth  

 

[Baloo Uriza]

I haven't heard of V3 doing this, but I have heard of Emerald, Phoenix and Firestorm causing permanent inventory loss on OpenSimulator-based grids.