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Inventory Search Issues

Virrginia Tombola
Equestrienne
Join date: 10 Nov 2006
Posts: 938
05-29-2007 09:20
Has anyone out there been having trouble finding things in their inventory? Not just the texture picker, but in the regular inventory as well.

Since the 16 update, I've noticed:

a) A standard search will not search the full name. For example an input of "skirt" will NOT return "Red Skirt", but often (not always, see next) return "Skirt, red".

b) Sometimes (i'd guess at 40% of the time), the full name will not return the item. For example, inputting "Red Skirt" will NOT return "Red Skirt"! However, I have discovered a work around, which requires some patience. I type in the first letter, wait for the search to complete, then narrow the search by typing in another letter, and so on, until the desired item is found. A related work around is to type in the full name, and if the search is unsuccessful, delete the last letter to the item, i.e. "Red Skir" will return "Red Skirt" when the full name will not.

c) In general, inventory search seems to be very slow, even when it works. I tested this on my skyplat, with no packet loss or lag observed.

d) "Recent Items" is inoperative. In other words, sometimes no items appear under the "Recent Items" tab at all. I was unable to figure out any work around aside from the obvious of using the regular inventory tab and searching there.


I'd love to hear if anyone else has some workarounds for this. In addition, if you've had trouble with this (either in regular inventory or the texture picker), please visit the Bug Report on JIRA MISC-240 and vote/add comments.

https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-240

Thanks all! My SL inventory really does resemble my RL closet now :P
Yumi Murakami
DoIt!AttachTheEarOfACat!
Join date: 27 Sep 2005
Posts: 6,860
05-29-2007 09:42
Enter your search string.

Wait for it to finish, and maybe show some wrong results.

Press backspace and delete the last character of the search string and everything will come up correctly. Strange but true. :)
Valentino Tendaze
Eternal Optimist
Join date: 9 Jan 2007
Posts: 279
05-29-2007 09:42
This is the same problem (or another manifestation of the same one) as VWR-740. It has 41 votes so far so will hopefully get looked at. https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-740
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Virrginia Tombola
Equestrienne
Join date: 10 Nov 2006
Posts: 938
05-29-2007 10:09
Thank you Valentino! When I first looked at VWR-740, I thought it only referred to the texture picker issues. But it covers this problem as well. I was haapy to see the post by "WorkingOnItLinden" saying that they are aware of the problem and hope to have it fixed with the new release, if nothing else.

Everyone who is having trouble with inventory/texture issues, log onto JIRA and look up Valentino's link there. Vote, and if you have any work arounds that you've come up with, please do post them.