"Save as" in SL

I'm still getting used to the concept of anything I put together on my own land is automatically "saved" there even when I turn off the program without pressing my habitual "crtl-S"

I've become spoiled by the "save as" feature of other software, where I can save multiple versions of a complex creation, as I create it.

It seems like the only equivalent of this is "take copy" -- is this true?

If so, how do you easily a "take copy" of a bunch of prims at once? (Can you select all prims in a certain region, such as the boundaries of your land, and bind them with one sweep into a single linked object?)

You have a distance limitation of 30 meters for a single linkset - so larger builds need to be linked up into separate, multiple linksets.

Persistence of objects in-world is actually pretty darned reliable, however there are several things that counter this reliability - if the region admin had to request a rollback for instance, you could lose things.. if the region crashes before it's had a chance to save your latest efforts, lost again.. so yes, Take Copy is the "safest" way to ensure you can recover something if it's lost. Your ctrl S thing would be equivelent to forcing a region save, which even region/estate managers don't have the ability to do, except in the course of restarting the region.

There is no need to link the objects. If you select several objects unlinked between them and you "Take" or "Take Copy" of them, they will be in your inventory all in one single object that has the name of the last object selected. When you drop that "compendium" object to the ground, you get all the original objects in an individual form.

One final tip: make sure you name your objects if they are things that you have created. Otherwise you end up with hundreds of things in your inventory named "object" and get the tedious chore of sitting down one day and rezzing those objects one by one to try and find the one you are looking for.

Thanks for that! I had no idea that was the case..