AUTO~RETURNS evoking MISSING OBJECTS due to unexplained LINK..

If you have been frustrated with MISSING OBJECTS particularly following an AUTO~RETURN, all hope mayhaps not be lost. Apparently for reasons known solely to Houdini Linden himself {lawd help meh if there is actually a "Houdini Linden" rotfl}, items returned automatically from a parcel somehow LINK THEMSELVES to a SINGLE "object." I have found this to be true not only for myself; I thereafter notified two friends who were able to "recover" their formerly lost objects via this route as well. When I had performed an auto~return in Sponsa of my own items, I noticed they weren't all surfacing in my inventory.. Let's face it, I have a lotta junk & knew betta than to have only received ONE unidentified "Object." ~.^ Nonetheless, I dragged it to the ground. EVERY item that had previously been placed, UNlinked, on my land was then LINKED. My friends had the same encounter when moving from rented land; the landlord had performed an auto~return then. Please weed through your unknown "Object"s if this mysterious disappearance has confuzzled you, t.

This explains the feature:

http://secondlife.com/knowledgebase/article.php?id=292

Yes, the Lindens added this feature sometime back, and it's been discussed how woefully inadequate they have been at letting people know of the feature. Considering it's playing with people's inventories, and therefore people's money, time, and sometimes livelihood, you would think it would get more than a brief line buried in the blog, which only a small fraction of the population read. :\