Objects Eating Objects ?

I have this picnic rug. I put it out at a friends house, and went to throw down an animation pillow on it that I had just bought.

A click and drag as I always would should have rezzed this object, but it didn't. The pillow vanished.

I have looked everywhere, but can't find it. Then I remembered something.

This is the same rug that ate one of my poseballs a year ago. I ended up having to rebuy the whole animation, as it never turned up, even after 2 weeks. I never used the rug again, until now.

I have wire-framed my view, highlighted transparencies, and searched the area, even in the sky, but my new purchase has gone. The rug content folder reveal nothing, and the creator of the rug is now absent from SL, so I can't even ask them for ideas.

Any other ideas for retrieving my property that has apparently been eaten by the rug?

Thanks

Gremlins!

It's also good to check the contents of the floor and anything else that was around the rug at the time.

edit the rug and look inside the contents tab
(oops just noticed you said that the contents are empty, try checking each prim, and also the stuff around the rug too)

did you happen to hold ctrl when you dragged?

Yea checked everywhere, and no didn't hold control....at least not that I was aware of.

I've checked the rug, even lifted it and looked - lol - like that makes a difference. Anything like that would have showed up in wireframe.

Ohhhh - The rug is 2 prims...... how do I check each of those prims ?

Check the Edit Linked Parts box at the top of the edit menu, then click each part individually with the contents tab open.

(Hope you find it!)

Ok - just did that.... and no.... no animation.

Errr....I think the rug is haunted! lol

hmmm.....wonder if in theory it is possible to make an object into something, that you can 'post' things to the creator..... Ok - I know that sounds a stupid question, because you can have suggestion boxes, etc, but then - how would I get that back if the creator isn't online anymore.

Dammit! Thats whats happening.

I just did a tester notecard and dropped it in there - off the back of my thinking out loud..... Grrrrr.... notecard was eaten!

Ok - so any plans on what I can do next ?

The rug is called "Picnic blanket v 1.2"

my girlfriend would like that rug

Do either of the prims have a script in the content tab? And if so, can you view the script?

have you unlinked everything attached to the rug?

or-

you can edit the rug, go to the contents tab and see if your stuff is in there. if so, drag it back into your inventory (i think).

Since the rug is 2 prims, have you identified/discovered the second prim? And if you have, have you looked in the Content of both prims?

It seems to me that the rug might have a script in it that automatically deletes anything placed in its contents if the creator is not somebody specified in the script. Maybe the rug creator was very adamant about anyone modifying their creation!?

But Notecards are different, as are scripts and some other things (landmarks and animations probably, not sure what else), in that they're *supposed* to just go into the contents of (the root prim of) a modifiable object if dropped there, even without the control key pressed.

I found a "Picnic blanket v 1.2" in my inventory, so I played around with it a bit. Sure enough, it eats notecards--they just disappear--which partially confirms Dytska's theory. If I drops an object on it, the object rezzes as I'd expect; if I hold down control and drop an object on it, the object goes into the inventory of the child prim (the blanket itself, which is where I dropped it, not a little full-alpha cube which is the root prim).

So, I dunno. You already did it, but I'd still want to double check that the contents of that child prim didn't have the missing stuff. A couple things about that: After checking the "Edit Linked Parts" box, be sure to click the rug itself--that's the child prim, highlighted in blue, and look in the Contents tab for it. Also, this rug is copiable, so you need to be sure you're editing the copy that ate the stuff. If you take it back into inventory, you'll have two copies--and you'll get a new one each time you rez it (well... not if the one you're rezzing contains no-copy animations--that would make the Picnic blanket show as No Copy in inventory).

Oh, about sending things to the object's creator: A script can tell if something is added to the scripted object, and it could IM or email information about it to the creator or any designated recipient. In the case of a notecard, it can just read the whole notecard and send the text to a recipient. Or, if the added thing is transferable, it can give that thing to some recipient. But I don't think that's what's happening here: when I control-dropped a transferable no-copy object on it, it stayed in the child-prim contents.