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We didn't do anything. We are all SL residents like you. Linden Lab didn't do anything either. The items are probably not missing at all, but the local cached copy of inventory on your own computer is inaccurate. You can usually cure that problem by rebuilding the cached copy. Clear your cache, then log in at a quiet sim like Pooley or Aqua. Open your inventory. Type any letter in the Search field at the top of Invenory. That will start the rebuilding process. Do not do anything else --- no IMs, no teleporting, no inventory searching --- until it has finished. It may take several minutes. If that does not cure your prolem, read this article for other suggestions >>> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Inventory_loss

In that case, your best choice is to involve the RL legal system. File a police report. See https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Stalkers

Take a screen shot, submit an Abuse Report. In your viewer, Help >> Report Abuse. Stick to the facts, do not guess about motives. Include whatever information you have, and indicate what section of the TOS you believe has been violated. From there on, it's up to LL to investigate and decide what sanction to impose, if any. You will get acknowledgment of your AR, but nothing else. You may only file an AR if you are the aggrieved person; you cannot file on someone else's behalf.

It sounds like you are the victim of one of the oldest scams in SL. You clicked on an innocent-looking object that then displayed a required message asking for permission to debit your acount. You either ignored the message or didn't understand it, and clicked OK. Doing that gave the object permission to remove as much money from your account as it wanted to..... possibly all of it. There is a very imporant lesson here: NEVER give anyone permission to take money from you unless you know the person and know exactl why they are asking. Nobody can steal L$ from you, but they can play you for a fool and get you to give permission to take it. There's not much you can do now. You can try filing an Abuse Report, if you remembered to take a photo of the object while your Build/Edit window was open to show details about who owns it. You can also include information from your Transaction History to show where your money went, although that will be shown as a "gift". LL probably won't be able to get your L$ back, but it's worth a try. It's a painful lesson, I'm afraid, but now you have learned it.

Two (actually three) suggestions.... 1. Try using a different web browser. Switch to Firefox or Chrome, both of which work much better with LL's web sites than IE does. 2. Don't ever fill the shopping cart. It tends to jam when it has more than a few items in it. (I never buy more than 1 or 2 items at a time.) 3. Use the Buy Now button instead of the shopping cart. It almost always works.

The new Direct Delivery system is a challenge for some merchants to get set up properly. I suspect that it will be a while before everyone is comfortable with it and has set up their own stores the right way. Until then, you can probably expect some funky behavior. If you paid for something and it wasn't delivered, get the record from your Transaction History and send the merchant a polite note asking for redelivery. We're all learning, so all I can suggest is patience.

If your Firestorm viewer does not have the Merchant Outbox option in the Avatar menu, then you do not have the current version. You have to download and install Firestorm 4.0.1.

Your cash payouts are through PayPal, so you'll have their records. The harder part will be your record of deductable expenses. RL expenses, like your computer and Internet serviceor your Photoshop and Maya upgrades are straightforward. If you have kept all of the in-world records in your Transaction History, those will help, but it may be hard to describe what many of them are.

Try http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Getting_Started_As_A_Second_Life_Performer or http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Overview_of_Music_in_Second_Life . That will get you started on the mechanics of setting up a stream. If you have to ask more about how to be a DJ, though, you're probably not ready. I suggest spending some time at several clubs and events to see what a DJ in Sl does.

That's is hardly news at this point. Google's free Translate API was removed back in December 2011. If you want a built-in translator, you may still use Google Translate, but you have to pay them for a subscription. Then you enter your account number in Preferences in either Firestorm or V3. If you don;t want to pay Google for their translator, you may use Bing's free service to do the same thing, but you still have to subscribe to it and enter your Bing account number in your viewer to make it work. Your only other choice is to use a translator that is NOT built in to your viewer. There are a couple on Marketplace that you can buy.

See http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/direct_delivery_faq

To be perfectly clear,........ this is a public help form where we answer questions about Second Life. It is not Second Life. To enter Second Life, the virtual world, you need to use a viewer. Download it free and install it. Assuming that your computer meets the minimum specifications for running it, you wil be in Second Life. Then all you have to do is learn how to move around and do whatever it is that you want to do.

Not if it's a Linden Home, but in any other house, sure. If you are in a Linden Home, you can allow someone else to have access to it andf to have rights to rez things there. Linden Home land can't be group-owned. But if your personal Resident account is eligible for Linden Home land, you can set the land to a group to collaborate with other group members. Go to About Land >> General and Set (not Deed) the land to a group that you own.

Aha! Thank you for that screen shot, LishaJoya. It looks like that is NOT a Blue Screen of Death. From the fine support crew at Firestorm ...... Some issues you might encounter are due to “bad” gestures (for lack of a better term). In brief, one or more gestures may fail to load properly and cause the viewer to time out. Symptoms which may be the result of problem gestures include: You are able to log in but find yourself under water (all you can see is a blue screen) at coordinates 10, 10, 10. If you log in to an all blue screen, check your location, see if you are near the SIM corner, at 10, 10, 10. If so, you almost certainly have a problem gesture. In some cases, you will see that there is an error in loading one or more gestures. If you do, make careful note of which ones, then find them and deactivate them - or better, delete them. If there is no such message, then please read on.

Have you tried resetting the filters?

Try using a different web browser. It seems to like Firefox or Chrome a lot more than IE.

Why not? What's happening when you try? When does login fail? Do you get an error message? What is it? Have you ever been able to log in before? What kind of computer do you have? Which viewer are you using? We can't even begin to guess what the problem is unless you provide some useful information. Click on the Options link in the upper right corner of your question and select EDIT. Please do NOT start a new thread. BTW, I'm just curious .... Why are you capitalizing every word?

It's hard to know without more information, so I can only take a shot in the dark. How about this one.....? [PUBLIC] BSOD on WinVista when Basic Shaders are enabled

I think I'm missing something. If you are really sampling your favorites randomly with each click, then the probability of any particular item showing ought to be the same, whether you have just viewed it or not. That's what "random" means. Unless you have a truly gigantic list of favorites, I'd be surprised if you didn't end up seeing some items that have have viewed recently. Having said that, though, it might be that the sampling is not really random at all. Marketplace keeps statistics on which items are most popular, so the sample when you click each time could be deliberately biased toward those favorites. In any case, there's almost certainly nothing you can do about it.

Dances are all executed on your own computer, not on the servers. As far as the servers are concerned, you are just standing still. If other people can't see you dancing, it's probably because you have a weak Internet connection. If you're on wireless, that could be one problem. Sometimes you can get around it the same way you can with a music stream that cuts out. Click the animation off for a few seconds and then restart it. You might also be able to beat it by rebaking your avatar (CTRL+Alt+R) or changing your group tag --- the same sorts of things that can cure a texture baking problem on your av. If worse comes to worst, you can always relog and hope for a stronger connection. I have seen each of those methods work for people around me.

I haven't tried this, but maybe you could experiment by using llEscapeURL and llUnescapeURL in your script to encode the high-bit ASCII characters and then display them. I'd be curious if that works, so could you post your result in the LSL Scripting forum if you try it (whether it works or not)?

The best way is to build it on the ground and then lift it. That way you can be sure that the entire thing is still within the bounds of your own parcel. It's easiest if the skybox is a single linkset, and you don't have anything in it (like furniture). Rez the structure on the ground and select it with your edit tool. Sit down in the structure. Then go to the Object tab and look at the three boxes on the left side where you can enter position information for X, Y, and Z. (NOT the X,Y, Z size numbers. The ones above that.) Your Z number is going to be something like 22 if you are on the ground. So change it to your desired altitude ..... 1,000 or whatever ... and hit enter. You and the skybox should be instantly transported to the new altitude. Once you have anything at the new altitude, you can of course add to it with your building tools, so if you move even one prim up from ground level, you can use it as a platform to build on. Just remember, though, to stay inside your parcel boundaries so you don't end up using your neighbor's prim allowance. There are tools to help you find those boundaries at high altitude if you need to. ETA: Incidentally, if you want temporary building platform at any altitude, Firestorm gives you a lovely option. Just fly up to your desired spot and type "rezplat" in chat. There's a brand new 20m round platform at your feet.

To expand on Ariel's very fine answer, just in case you are new enough to SL that you have never uploaded anything before .... There's an upload fee whenever you import anything into SL. Before we had mesh, the fee was fixed at L$10 per item (about 4 cents), whether you were uploading a texture, a sound, or an animation. Sculpties are nothing more than a special case of a TGA texture, so they were added to the list with a L$10 fee too. Those fees are still the same. As Ariel pointed out, however, mesh objects are potentially much more complex, so LL charges a substantially higher upload fee -- on a sliding scale that depends on just how complex your object is. That's one reason why they require you to have payment information on file before they will authorize you to upload mesh.

Plathix Exonar wrote: Edit: I already gave them identification when I signed up, they should be able to contact me without a credit card. I am also unable to give a credit card, is it possible to give some other form of contact information? No, Linden Lab requires payment information on file before they will authorize you to upload mesh.

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