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  1. Just for the record, you can do so now (writing this in 2022, but it may have started a year or so earlier). There's been a change and the newer versions of mesh bodies allow this. I still have a large collection of standard / system clothes and I'm thrilled that they now can be worn by and seen on my Maitreya mesh body.
  2. Good suggestions!, all. I've been working on limiting folder size. I didn't know 3k items was the limit. Thank you. If I have folders within folder within folders can each one be up to 3k or does that make the parent folder too big if its children folders are each 3k? I've tested with the Linden viewer. It's more responsive than Firestorm, but not always. I will use it if I can't get inventory to load on Firestorm and I'm trying to troubleshoot. It usually is more reliable for loading, I just don't like the way it looks. Your third suggestion is the best solution (only 50k inventory) but I fear I may lack the necessary organizational skills and grit to to "kick it to the curb". 😄 I have this inner policy in my head I am always fighting. It's something like "Save for later... just in case!" (I do sometimes ask myself: in the context of a virtual world, what is the "in case?" I have never satisfactorily answered that question. 😕 )
  3. Thanks very much. I'm having huge problems logging in and loading. Takes a long time to rez and then 50-75% of my inventory is missing I'm always having to clear my inventory cache to get on. It takes 2 or three attempts just to log in and I often rez with only a partial inventory count. I'm looking into every solution I can find as this has been going on for several months. The inventory is large but I've heard people say they have larger ones and have no trouble with logging in. I'll take off a couple of my bigger groups (I have those two you mentioned) and see what happens.
  4. I've been trying to find references to the highlighted phrase above online. No luck. I may be using the wrong keywords. Can someone provide more details about how groups affect our viewer experience?
  5. Hi, thanks for answering. No, I have not tried logging in at several different locations. Doubt I can do that, my tower weighs a ton (or so it feels, when I lift it up). I think I may have fixed this problem another way. I have one of those drives split in two partitions: the standard relatively small one for the Windows OS software and a much larger one for data files. I have a big inventory (many years on SL--it kind of collects) and the texture cache is, by default, located in the small, crowded C partition. I read in another thread it can be moved anywhere, so tonight I had the application (very roughly: Preferences > Network Section > texture cache location in Firestorm) point to a directory in my much larger E data partition. Then I logged in. It was fast! No more 3-5 minutes waits! I saw none of the strange messages (there are several different errors I get) and had none of the problems with connecting or getting my avatar to load fully that I have been suffering for weeks. My avatar loaded fully and quickly. I didn't need to go to a quiet area (lately those quiet areas have been giving me trouble too). I hope this is fixed now, but I won't know until I test it a few more times over a period of several days. I will try to remember to report back after I've seen how this solution works over time. ================================ OK, moving the cache didn't work. It's the next day. I just tried to log in. Crashed/didn't load first time. Second time I got on but only my avatar head is visible. (I commonly have this problem.) The inability to log in or logging in with a partial unmovable avatar (sometimes it is a grey shadow with its arms spread wide and unmovable have increased significantly since the latest Firestorm release 6.3.9.58205, although it was happening regularly before that release, too. Could the inventory size be a problem? Over 500k objects. I find that the only way to consistently log into Second Life is to clear my cache (I know there are warnings not to do this, but it's the only way I can log in.) Then I wait somewhere quiet for inventory to load and I am usually good to go. I just tried the standard SL viewer. It works better. It logged me on quickly. It was slow to load my avatar but not too slow. My avatar is fully there and I can move normally, unlike my experience with Firestorm. It's a pity, I like the Firestorm viewer better.... although as I switched to the web browser to update this post, I got logged out. When I went back to the SL viewer, I had been disconnected. Ok, I got back on again with the main viewer but my inventory is showing only about half the item count and it is not increasing. I'm beginning to think I need to look for information about large inventories... what do you think?
  6. I get this message all the time now. Even after I've tried solutions like the above. Heavier traffic on SL due to covid-19?
  7. Thank you to every who posted in this thread. It _really_ helped me. I was baffled why this was happening.
  8. Adding more troubleshooting info: I also installed silverlight, using a version of Internet Explorer I keep around for that sole purpose. Things did seem better. But when trying to add a comment about this, the second horrible symptom of these second life freezes occurred: My entire PC and all applications I was trying to use, like my web browser to type this comment, also froze. Alt-tab, ctrl-alt-del to bring up task mgr, none of these "get out of the frozen app" tricks worked. I've hard booted about 12 times today. So disabling voice didn't solve my problem although it let me function a bit longer in a crowded sim. But why does this frozen connection in Second Life extend to every other application open on my PC, forcing a power down?
  9. Thank you VERY much for all the technical details in this thread. I was having similar problems (screen completely freezing shortly after entering populated/high avatar density sims and trying to cam around to see things). I tried all the usual fixes (drastically lowering graphics settings, moving my cache to a less crowded drive partition, etc.) This happened on Firestorm and the main SL viewer: there was no difference in performance between the two. Like Miumiu, I suspect the connection. My problem is occurring during the coronavirus pandemic--I saw lots of articles online about how Second Life use is increasing at this time due to all of us being bored out of our skulls. 🙂 What worked for me is the "disable voice"setting in Preferences > Sounds. This thread is great, it helped me understand why this might be happening. Thumbs up to you all! 🙂
  10. Thanks for the firestorm tip, Whirly Fizzle. I was having this problem too, it was very hard to play the game or have a good time, and your suggestion worked.
  11. When this happens to me, it's usually because my wired network connection has gone down and the router switches me to a wireless connection, which can be so slow it's hard to use SL with it. I have the same symptoms when I've been switcehd to wireless. Make sure your cat5 connection is secure on both ends.
  12. I had a problem recently with one eye that seemed to have some grey fluid next to the iris that wiggled and jiggled. When you looked at the eye up close it seemed to be leaking grey fluid that was in constant movement. A nice effect for halloween, maybe, but not so good if you're going to dance. :-) Fix: I use system skins and shapes and we can wear some mesh things but not others. This problem probably can't happen to mesh bodies. I had been trying on mesh eyes (which system AVs can wear) and saving my outfits if I liked the look. Then I switched to system eyes. I removed the right mesh eye and the background/alpha but I forgot to remove the left mesh eye. When I put on the system eyes, the left eye was overlaid across the left mesh eye, and with graphic overlays you often get wiggly movements like the ones I saw. Removing the attached mesh eye fixed the problem.
  13. I have the same problem. I wish someone could have answered it when you asked. I seem to remember when I used the Cassic viewer that there was a tab or link off of my profile that went to my feed or blog, which was an intergal part of the profile where I could post comments and notes for others to read. I do not see how to access this feed in Firestorm, but I am searcing online now for an answer and will post it here if I ever find a way to access and write on my feed/blog feature in-game again.
  14. I have the same problem. I wish someone could have answered ut when you asked. I seem to remember when I used the Cassic viewer that there was a tab or link off of my profile that went to my feed or blog, which was an intergal part of the profile where I could post comments and notes for others to read. I do not see how to access this feed in Firestorm, but I am searcing online now for an answer and will post it here if I ever find a way to access and write on my feed/blog feature in-game again.
  15. Just wanted to say I really appreciate all the answers in this thread. They really helped someone like me returning to SL after many years and rather baffled by the technology changes. I have a few more questions: I hear some people say that mesh bodies (and especially heads) are limited because you cannot change their shape (or that changes to your shape do not show on them). Any truth to that? Others say that the mesh body parts, like breasts or buttocks, can be modified extensively and one woman even demonstrated to me how she can "grow her breasts," lol. What's actually going on here? Do mesh bodies rely on the classic system "shape" to get the form? Will editing my appearance/shape change a mesh body or head or am I stuck with its default shape?
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