I lost the post-it note I had on my desk with the location of the shop. Can anyone tell me where to buy them?

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Loni Beckett
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12-26-2007 22:56
There is a store that sells various sized storage cubes for inventory organizing.
I lost the post-it note I had on my desk with the location of the shop. Can anyone tell me where to buy them? ![]() |
Tegg Bode
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12-26-2007 23:34
There is a store that sells various sized storage cubes for inventory organizing. I lost the post-it note I had on my desk with the location of the shop. Can anyone tell me where to buy them? ![]() You can make them your self really easy, just make a cube click more then contents and drop other things into it, decorating the outside with a texture is optional. _____________________
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12-27-2007 00:39
Exactly so. You may use any prim you want for storage. Size does not matter either. Just rez a prim and size and texture it as you like. Then drag your stuff into the "Contents".
I recommend (i.e. that's what myself do), to use a hierarchical naming convention, e.g. * Inventory Archive / Clothes / Jeans * Inventory Archive / Houses / Tiki Beach House * Inventory Archive / Body Parts / Skins * Inventory Archive / Textures / Wood It takes some time to organise the usual chaos which has accumulated in the Inventory ... but it's well worth the effort. |
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12-27-2007 00:42
Just bear in mind that prims cannot contain subfolders.
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Alexa Susanto
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12-27-2007 01:46
I think you may be referring to the boxes sold at the ThinC store. Four different coloured boxes. Sorry I can't give an LM as I'm not in world.
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Markubis Brentano
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12-27-2007 06:18
Exactly so. You may use any prim you want for storage. Size does not matter either. Just rez a prim and size and texture it as you like. Then drag your stuff into the "Contents". I recommend (i.e. that's what myself do), to use a hierarchical naming convention, e.g. * Inventory Archive / Clothes / Jeans * Inventory Archive / Houses / Tiki Beach House * Inventory Archive / Body Parts / Skins * Inventory Archive / Textures / Wood It takes some time to organise the usual chaos which has accumulated in the Inventory ... but it's well worth the effort. yeah that ^^ I also like to add a floating text script into the contents so when you pull it out onto the floor to rez it, it will have easily read-able text flaoting over it. |
Lindal Kidd
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12-27-2007 07:30
There is a store that sells various sized storage cubes for inventory organizing. I lost the post-it note I had on my desk with the location of the shop. Can anyone tell me where to buy them? ![]() Yes, they're sold by ThinC. I have a set, but I don't recommend them. You can get the same results by dumping items into a simple plywood cube, for free. _____________________
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Oryx Tempel
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12-27-2007 07:46
Still, though, if they're cute boxes, like legal papers boxes or hat boxes or something, it might add more ambiance than a plywood cube. I've got about 20 plywood cubes permanently rezzed in my workshop and I'm tired of looking at them...
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Lindal Kidd
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12-27-2007 08:10
Still, though, if they're cute boxes, like legal papers boxes or hat boxes or something, it might add more ambiance than a plywood cube. I've got about 20 plywood cubes permanently rezzed in my workshop and I'm tired of looking at them... ![]() HA!!! Your Christmas present is on its way, slightly belated. _____________________
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12-27-2007 10:34
LOL! Thanks!
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Marin Mielziner
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12-27-2007 10:51
Still, though, if they're cute boxes, like legal papers boxes or hat boxes or something, it might add more ambiance than a plywood cube. I've got about 20 plywood cubes permanently rezzed in my workshop and I'm tired of looking at them... ![]() I made my storage prims into a bedroom dresser and some nightstands. Seemed logical. |
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12-27-2007 11:27
Just remember that you're increasing the risk of the garbage collector hickup'ing a *lot*.
It roams around looking for assets that exist on the asset server but aren't referenced anywhere on the grid (by being rezzed, inside a resident/prim's inventory, dropped on a notecard, etc). Those orphaned assets then get moved out of the active set (if it got it wrong, you'll see "Missing from database" ![]() By stuffing things into a prim (or worse, prims within prims to any degree) you just make it more likely that when it hickups you'll loose everything you stored away in the prim. If you want to store transfer asset, just use an alt instead and if something is "valuable" and no transfer, keep a copy of it in your main inventory as well. |
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12-27-2007 11:27
I also like to add a floating text script into the contents so when you pull it out onto the floor to rez it, it will have easily read-able text flaoting over it. sorry, but i don't understand the purpose of making a storage prim and then taking that prim back into inventory? why not just make a folder in inventory and put the items in THERE? am i missing something? _____________________
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12-27-2007 11:36
For ages I stored little used items in pictures on my walls
![]() That way I didn't use any extra prims, but still had stuff tidy. The benefit of putting stuff in a prim and taking it back into inventory, btw, is that you now have ONE item, instead of, say 50. If you want to keep your inventory thinner, this can really help. I also use prim storage like this to 'back up' valuable pictures and textures etc. _____________________
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Darien Caldwell
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12-27-2007 12:45
No offense, but it seems to me that would make searching for a particular item harder. If you didn't find it in your normal inventory, you would then have to rez these boxes and search through them (and boxes dont' actually have search capability) in hopes of finding it. However, as a backup measure, I could see using it. Having large inventory doesn't bother me, I currently have over 23,000 items and no ill effects because of it. I know some people with much larger than me. The only time it hurts is on the rare occasions a clearing of the cache is necessary, it can take 10-15 min to reload it all. Just my viewpoint.
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12-27-2007 12:53
sorry, but i don't understand the purpose of making a storage prim and then taking that prim back into inventory? why not just make a folder in inventory and put the items in THERE? am i missing something? If you put 500 items in a folder, you still have 500 items in your inventory. If you put them in a box and take it back into your inventory, they count as 1 item. A small inventory is a happy one! ![]() |
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12-27-2007 12:54
If you put 500 items in a folder, you still have 500 items in your inventory. If you put them in a box and take it back into your inventory, they count as 1 item. A small inventory is a happy one! ![]() but it's an illusion, you still really have all those items in your inventory, be brave except your excesses. _____________________
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12-27-2007 13:05
No offense, but it seems to me that would make searching for a particular item harder. If you didn't find it in your normal inventory, you would then have to rez these boxes and search through them (and boxes dont' actually have search capability) in hopes of finding it. However, as a backup measure, I could see using it. Having large inventory doesn't bother me, I currently have over 23,000 items and no ill effects because of it. I know some people with much larger than me. The only time it hurts is on the rare occasions a clearing of the cache is necessary, it can take 10-15 min to reload it all. Just my viewpoint. ![]() I had about 20,000 or something like that. Now I have about 5000. The rare occasions do not always get fixed by clearing cache or time or . . .. Just eaten by SL. SL is a hungry beast. Note to self: Go ahead already and move folders/subfolders/etc. to "official folders" as they are "more secure", apparently. Read that on the blog somewhere. And reflects personal experience of most of the missing items being in "orphan" folders. _____________________
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Lindal Kidd
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12-27-2007 15:32
No offense, but it seems to me that would make searching for a particular item harder. If you didn't find it in your normal inventory, you would then have to rez these boxes and search through them (and boxes dont' actually have search capability) in hopes of finding it. However, as a backup measure, I could see using it. Having large inventory doesn't bother me, I currently have over 23,000 items and no ill effects because of it. I know some people with much larger than me. The only time it hurts is on the rare occasions a clearing of the cache is necessary, it can take 10-15 min to reload it all. Just my viewpoint. ![]() A large inventory will slow your logins and logouts, and may also affect your teleportation reliability and speed. _____________________
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Darien Caldwell
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12-27-2007 16:21
A large inventory will slow your logins and logouts, and may also affect your teleportation reliability and speed. I dont' see a correlation to inventory size and teleport reliability. Can you provide more information? I don't mean to be argumentative, but I simply seek understanding. How does the inventory size affect teleporting? For the record I rarely if ever have issues teleporting. ![]() _____________________
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Kitty Barnett
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12-27-2007 16:29
A large inventory will slow your logins and logouts, and may also affect your teleportation reliability and speed. ![]() Attachments do affect tp'ing since the prim data needs to be sent from one sim to the next, and uploaded back by the sim to the asset server at log-off. |
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12-27-2007 17:05
I dont' see a correlation to inventory size and teleport reliability. Can you provide more information? I don't mean to be argumentative, but I simply seek understanding. How does the inventory size affect teleporting? For the record I rarely if ever have issues teleporting. ![]() Only personal experience. When I actually had inventory in my main account the TP time, and rez time, and lag was much greater with the same basic avatar setup but much larger inventory with the main than with the alt that had basically nothing in inventory. Actually, now that I think about it, the alt with the much smaller inventory had a lot more in the way of attachments (ears, tail, whiskers, etc.) and still performed better than main. _____________________
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Kidd Krasner
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12-27-2007 19:25
Just remember that you're increasing the risk of the garbage collector hickup'ing a *lot*. It roams around looking for assets that exist on the asset server but aren't referenced anywhere on the grid (by being rezzed, inside a resident/prim's inventory, dropped on a notecard, etc). Those orphaned assets then get moved out of the active set (if it got it wrong, you'll see "Missing from database" ![]() By stuffing things into a prim (or worse, prims within prims to any degree) you just make it more likely that when it hickups you'll loose everything you stored away in the prim. If you want to store transfer asset, just use an alt instead and if something is "valuable" and no transfer, keep a copy of it in your main inventory as well. I don't understand. When you put all these things into an object, they're still referenced by the object, so they shouldn't be garbage collected. The object itself still exists either in the user's inventory or having been rezzed in land they own. If, perchance, the object gets lost due to a glitch, then yes, you've lost the things stored in the object, because you no longer have any way of getting to them, even if they haven't been deleted from the asset server. It seems that the real question is which is more likely, losing the alt or the box. Similarly, which is more likely, losing something while moving it into an object or losing it while trying to give it to an alt. |
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12-27-2007 19:57
When you put all these things into an object, they're still referenced by the object, so they shouldn't be garbage collected. Yep, that's what's supposed to happen, but it doesn't always work that way ![]() |
Tegg Bode
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12-28-2007 00:22
Smaller inventories allow easier teleporting and also reduce lag in combat, many people run a bare bones alt for combat less than 2000 items and I have noticed the difference my self with identical weapons comparing my main to my combat alts performance.
Keeping my mains inventory under 8000 has resulted in nearly faultless logons and Teleports unless SL really is broken. Trouble with putting stuff in a box is prims can disappear off land too. The again if you haven't opened the box in 12 months just give it away. _____________________
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