Missing purchased items returning
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 at 5:57 pm by phoenixlinden
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The bug causing the occasional missing inventory on re-log has been located and corrected. All new purchases will work as expected. All inventory purchased since 2006-10-11 and before 2006-10-17 18:00 SLT is being returned to the Lost & Found folder in your inventory.
For those interested in the gory details, the back-end systems in Second Life have picked up permissions and security settings which block invalid viewer requests to modify inventory. The simulators have been sending incorrectly parented inventory items to the inventory database since the feature existed. Before 2006-10-11, the viewer would immediately detect and correct the inventory item but now that request was being blocked.
The inventory database now corrects bad parenting information and other checks are in place to make sure this never happens again.
All inventory in this state is still available and I have kicked off a process which will return these lost items to your Lost & Found folder. This process can take a long time — possibly a week. I will be investigating ways to optimize the process to try to finish it sooner.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 17th, 2006 at 5:57 pm and is filed under Security, Bugs &