trying to help elvisca Legend

This poor girl came to me quite distressed she appears to have a bugged replicating landmark in her inventory (she came to me cos the landmark is mine ) i dont know how or why this happened and have never heard of anyone else having the same problem - she has tried help island and leaving messages with help but no replies.
She has over 7000 of the landmarks in her inventory and if she deletes one it replicates.
if she opens her inventory they replicate , if she tps somewhere they replicate on her screen like when u land somewhere and someone sends u a landmark.
i do not have a landmark giver else i would think that was bugged the only way she might have got it is from buying one of my items they include a landmark. but as i say ive never heard anyone else having the problem.
Shes cleared cache, relogged , even reinstalled sl - if anyone can help we would both be very grateful - the thought of the same bugging getting in my 26000 inventory has brought me out in a cold sweat lol

I think I would start by turning off scripting.

Online Help should resolve this - looks like a "grief" not an honest bug (although they can be grief too).

It is always worth considering if this is an SL generic problem, unlikely in this case since no-one else has reported it. Only scripts can do these things - Landmarks themselves are passive little beasts.

Please keep us up to date - like to know what has caused this.

I'm in no way even mildly familiar with scripts but it sounds like a landmark that's copying itself to the folder rather than moving. Could this be just an accidental corruption?
Does elvisca have a landmark showing on screen and if so, can she merely close it or discard it?

Scripts can't copy objects within a single inventory, and scripts can't affect the inventory of an avatar. A script could be giving her a landmark over and over again, but if it was doing that she would get the landmark window and the choice to discard.

Actually scripts cannot do this. There is no way that a script can detect that a landmark has been deleted from your inventory, and then replicate it. There is the possiblity that she is wearing a scripted object that keeps giving her a LM, and that because it does this so frequently, it appears to be replicating upon deletion. She could try removing all scripted objects. However, if it is truly replicatating upon deletion ... this is clearly not griefing, but a bug. The only solution is to get assistance from Linden Lab.

ty for your ideas i willl ask her to take everything off and see if it occurs sounds like a good option - the problem seems to be she opens her inventory and can see the landmark replicating or at least her inventory seems full of them im wondering if there are so many that it just seems like theyre replicating when she deletes but her inventory is so buggy she cant highlight to delete the landmarks are all she sees when she opens it.
the other issue is when she lands anywhere - thats when she gets them appearing on her screen over and over and over she showed me a screenshot - too weird but alll your comments are useful thanks.

You know swaffette, I wonder if some of the behavior that appears to be replication may not really be replication after all. I know that if I open a folder with a large number of items in it, it sometimes appears as empty and then items begin to fill in, almost as though they are being added. If the items were identical, it might appear they are being replicated. I wonder if acquiring the 7000 landmarks was a one time glitch, and that now what she is seeing is the inventory window just having a hard time dealing with 7000 landmarks in the same folder. In any event, I highly recommend she just call support and see if she can have these items deleted.

I had something similar happen to me, but it must have been almost 12 months ago. You know back when Live Help actually provided some kind of live help

An object of mine had gone off world on our island and every time I TP'd back to the island it would start spamming me with returns. The same object returned to me at close to 1000 a second!

Live Help deleted the object that was stuck in the offworld state but that didnt fix the problem. After all the cache clearing and re-installing they eventually had to manually delete all the copies from my inventory (I think thats what they meant with the techo-ese)

Long story short, if its not some kind of random attachment she has (it does sound kind of like a poofer the way it spams her when she TPs) then the only help will probably be support.

Catt

Try this;

Go to a No script area.

Strip off ALL attachments.

Open Inventory and Empty the Trash.

Then open the area in the Inventory where the Landmarks are resting (Either the Landmark Folder, or other folder it is residing in)

Wait until All items on the Inventory are accounted for in the count at the top of the Window.

Left Click on the Top Landmark.
Shift Left click on the Bottom Landmark, this should Highlight them all.

Drag them all simultaniously to the Trash Bin.

Empty the Trash.

If all the Landmarks Vanish, and stay Vanished, Do NOT reattach any of your attachments.

Go to a script enabled area, and see if they come back.

If they do not come Back, Reattach your Common attachments ONE at a time. If the Landmark comes Back when you Attach one, That is the Offending scripted item, Take it off, and return to a No script Sim.

Delete the Object, and delete all the Landmarks as above. and remember to empty the Trash.

If the Landmark does Not come back at all, Or if the Landmarks return the Moment you delete them, Chances are it was some sort of Bug. You have to wear a scripted Item to have it work.

One last thing, If it is something like a Floater, or Follower, Open View, and Click Highlight Transparent. You should be able to see any Invisible object attached to you.

If something Is Following you, Go to the edge of an Island Sim. Create a Prim that is 10 meters long, by .5 by .5 meters.
Sit on one end of it, then Move the end you are sitting on Over the Sim Boundry into the void, Keeping the Centre point of the Prim Inside the Sim Boundry.

Anything following you will follow you out of the Sim, then delete, or be returned to it's creator.

Hope these Help.

Angel.