Items dissappearing from inventory

I actually think there may be 3 or 4 distinct bugs causing "inventory issues" and because of this, it's not a simple matter to isolate and fix. the symptom is the same every time, "missing stuff". But the causes may be many, and intermittent.

Intermittent bugs are the most annoying, because they're so hard to fiind and test.

All I've gotten from the lindens, was to IM the subject line of my bug reports, to Kona Linden.. who isn't ever online when I shoot the IMs.. and we KNOW how reliable offline IMs can be.

It would go a long way towards reassuring me, if the lindens would say "we've suspended garbage collection until this issue has been examined further.. we are looking into this, please don't panic"

Or just a "got your message. please hold"

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Fortunately, I haven't bought much recently, and what I did buy is still there. I certainly hope people get their inventory back, this is scary shit.

I just submitted the bug report as well, and I hope they can determine what's going on. I irks me off though, I just lost a L$1000 Kitty pet I bought earlier this evening. Of course I couldn't lose the cheaper stuff...I had to lose one of the most expensive things I've ever bought, and it was cute too ;_;. Here's hoping they fix this and get our items back to us. I can prove I bought the cat...but the bigger question is will the vendor replace it if LL fails to return our lost items.

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Oh where oh where has my kitty cat gone,
oh where oh where could she be?
With her huge yellow eyes and her little red ball,
oh where oh where could she be.....

lol, sorry. I couldn't resist.

I've now come to the opinion that "Ownership rights" only apply to content creators in SL, and not to content consumers. LL is all hot and bothered to nail down the grid, the second that an exploit comes down the pike that can allow a few free copies to be made of retail content..

Put when purchased.. paid for.. content starts vanishing.. LL can't even be bothered to respond with a "please hold" for nearly 72 hours.

I am REALLY upset about this.. because now I'm out $600L... plus there's innumerable textures missing from my inventory.. and I'm sure a number of objects and other things missinge from my 20,XXX items in inventory.. and my problem doesn't even begin to rate investigation by LL. NONE of my missing content was "recently purchased".

What worries me, as a "Content Creator".. is that my objects, my products, my creations are among the missing items in my inventory. Things I can no longer sell.. because they're gone.

But I guess that doesn't matter to Linden Labs.

LL has finally acknowledged the bug in the blog:

http://blog.secondlife.com/2006/10/16/bug-purchased-items-disappear-from-inventory/

The answers in LA forum:

Sorry you lost your stuff, do the workaround. Very sad.

Also, while we (so MANY resis) have tried Shep's suggestion, with a 100% repro rate, they claim they can't do it 100%.

"so it would appear that only some scripted vendor objects are affected"

Not exactly.

correction.. they acknowleded ONE bug in the blog.

The one affecting me, old items vanishing from inventory.. they've got nothing on.
The one wiping out thousands of items at a time, they've got nothing on.

I'm missing things as well, an animation I bought and a custom made pose ball a friend made for me both vanished last night. Also, from what I tell, I have also lost the Octoberville Scavenger Hunt hud and some (if not all) of the items I found while on the hunt. It's as if the most recent items disappear after I log off.