Need help with texture on a prim

I'm cross-posting from the building forum in hopes I'll get a quicker answer.

I'm a very new builder, so please be gentle...

So i rezzed a skyplatform, a mega prim from a freebie pack. I applied a texture of grass and flowers, worked fine. Last night, (okay enjoy the laugh) I deleted the platform out from under myself by mistake! I managed to re-rezz the platform and get it back under the waterfall, trees, and fencing (are you getting the visual here? ).

But the texture won't reapply! When i'm in the texture selection box, many of my purchased textures don't appear, including the one I previously applied to the prim. Dragging doesn't work either. What could the problem be? The Linden textures work, and some of my snapshot textures work, but most of my purchased textures don't.

Thanks for your help.

When you say it wont apply....is it actually blocking the texture when you try to click and drag it (with a little circle with a line thru it)....Or....are you just not seeing the texture itself when you go to apply it?

There's isn't any reason why it shouldn't apply.....only thing I can think of it's the texture is just not rezzing quickly and you're seeing it as not applied....when actually it is just taking time to appear on the prim. Sometimes that happens when I am building...I select a known txture and I get a gray square and it takes forever to appear......while other textures show up right away.

Part of the reason this happens is when textures are created and uploaded....the creator might use too large of an image format....making the texture more complicated than it needs to be....making the graphics cards work harder to sort it out, so to speak. (I'm so not a techie, but that's the gist of it)

What exactly IS happening when you try to apply the texture?

Are the textures "no transfer"? I have a texture that does not appear in the texture window, I have to drag it from my inventory to the prim.

Wow... the simplest things.. Thanks so much you guys. So the texture was actually blocked (little circle with a line thru it) when i tried to apply inthe texture window of the edit box. Now I just dragged it onto the prim, and it worked perfectly. Head slap picture here..

FYI, it was a no trans texture..

That's why. Limited perms textures don't apply normally. You have to drag them to the face like that.