Littering!

Greetings!

My first post, about my first land in SL. Someone left some objects on my property a few days ago. Just early experiments in creating objects. Three wooden pyramids. They're small, but I'd like to get rid of them. Any suggestions? I have my own poor experiments to do!

Thanks!

Right click the object and return. For your objects, right click and delete.

To check your entire plot, use "About land, objects, refresh names" This will show you all objects on your land, who owns them, and give you the option to return them.

Hi Rusalka!

I would add that if you don't want this sort of thing to happen again that you right click on your land and under the options tab uncheck create objects and object entry under the catagory "all residents". I would also be sure that edit terrain was unchecked so that someone wandering past can't dig a trench through the middle of your land.

Hope you are enjoying owning land in Second Life! Welcome!

**edit** under the objects tab you can also enable object return and set the time so that if someone else's stuff does end up on your parcel it gets sent back to them even if you don't find it. This helps keep the ground and sky clear of rubbish.

Wow, thanks very much! I should have added that I'm on a MacBook Pro, so I'm having to find a number of work-arounds for right and left clicking. So far, so good. I'm happy to be here and very pleased with my surreal estate. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home!

R

Hi, Rusalka. I live on my Mac, though it is not a laptop, and I am very happy with the best workaround for that problem I have seen: a Kensington 2-button mouse for the Mac...; ).

I think it's hold down the Apple (Cmd) key and then click?

Meep. Kind of embarrassing to realize how much you still have to learn when you're on your fifteenth Mac!

R

Just to clarify here, the mouse doesn't have to specifically say it's for a Mac, any USB mouse will work. I just took the wheel-mouse from my PC to use with my PowerBook.

You CAN delete objects belonging to other people on your land. The land i Currently live on, Several squatters set up Homes about the place, Fully Furnished houses, And they littered the landscape with Hundreds of pointless prims during thier building attempts. I returned all the Loose prims, and deleted everything else.

Angel.

Return and Delete have no seperate function.

You can NOT delete another person's prims, reguardless of if it's your property or not. Any prims removed with the Delete fuction are simply Returned.

Note:: Copy prims are deleted via return/auto-return (or were). This makes sandboxes hazardous to build in as your work is always copiable for yourself (something LL programmers overlooked. Oops *rolls eyes*). Wether this was fixed, or will be fixed, I am not clear on.

~Jessy

Yes, but I like to send peoples trash back to them. Usually my trash is crap that fills up their inventory. I don't ever have nice stuff to delete.

Just to clarify the delete and return functions... when you right click an object, to use delete and return, you have to choose 'More' from the pie menu to find those nested functions in the pie menu.

Welcome, Rusalka !

If you want to get rid of that problem once and for all, activate autoreturn.

There is a field in the "About Land" dialogue box (I believe it's under "Options", where you can specify the number of minutes after which other people's prims are removed automatically from your parcel.

Set that to a non-zero value and your land will stay clean.

Can I just say a few words in favour of leaving build on?

I'm lucky in that I live in a quiet and peaceful sim and have few visitors. Whilst I have indeed disabled 'edit land' for visitors I do allow build and script.

On the rare occasion that anyone leaves a prim or two .. or that empty package we all generate from purchases? .. I have no problem with the occasional 'return'

I know only too well the problem of buying a package and then not being able to open it in the shop LOL. Of course, if I lived next to one I can guess I'd be tempted to disable build or at least have auto-return on

Set your land to group share, and uncheck all the options for non group members to drop their crap everwhere.

With regard to not being able to rez a purchase box in the shop, would you be happy if someone knocked on your door some day and asked if they can try on their new dress in your house? LL used to have roads through sims where you could drop your boxes etc for a short period for that reason, so maybe shops could leave a parcel strip outside their shops for their customers to 'change'. I am sure there are some 'Malcoms' from McDonalds who play SL, that during the day earn a crust clearing up the burger boxes... perhaps thats a new business that could start in SL?

On a side note (being serious now), how come objects such as bullets, motorcycles etc can 'drift' onto our land, when we have 'no non-goup objects rezzed or dropped' enabled, is it because they are 'physical'?