Catching runaway objects?

I was making an object in the sandbox and a bug resulted in the object bouncing all over the place and now I have no clue where it went. Is there an easy way to locate/retrieve it? I'd rather not lose the rest of the script!

Create a sensor looking for objects with that name that are ACTIVE.

(i.e. No, there's no easy way. Especially if it's in another sim.)

You should put a llSensorRepeat() on the object in question, looking for its owner every few seconds.

Then, if it can't find the owner, it becomes non-physical, stops in place, and start SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF ITS LUNGS FOR ITS MOMMY!!!! ^^

Okay, maybe leave that last bit out. ^^ But you could have it maybe start throwing IM's to you telling you what sim and location it's in. ^^

As for finding an already-lost item? Umm... I dunno. I wish SL was like the old MUCK days, where you could just use @find to find stuff that you owned. ^^ Maybe you could make a sort of 'metal detector', an llSensorRepeat that looks for objects in range who's llDetectedOwner == llGetOwner() (you), then whispers their position to you? It'd take some flying around searching, but hey, 96m is a pretty good detection range. ^^

Use this to prevent objects from running away:
llSetStatus(STATUS_SANDBOX, TRUE);

Controls whether the object can cross region boundaries and move more than 20 meters from its creation point.

I too have an object which is IMing me every few minutes.

I have had to turn of IM -> emails because of this.

I have absolutely no idea where the object is.

Is there no way to find and get rid of this object?

FWIW, I do this:
- write scripts in my inventory
- drag them into the object each time I make a new script version (deleting the old script from object)
- anything that can run away, add a selfdestruct script so it dies if it gets too far from me.

Note that things that IM you: make sure you add the globallocation into that IM otherwise you could be receiving messages from it for a loonnggg time.

Azelda

I'm sorry... can I laugh? Please? This is really funny!

My suggestion is you keep a copy in your inventory, making the item temporary on rez, so you can keep trying it out and not worrying about leave junk lying around.

-Hiro Pendragon

Have you asked a Linden for help?

One suggestion for finding lost prims - Everything you own shows up as green on the mini-map... I've accidentally kicked physics onto unlinked objects and had them explode, only to find pieces later by seeing green dots on my radar... So far, even fairly tiny pieces seem to appear... So, when I have the insane physics of SL send something I had flying off into space because a butterfly sneezed at it, I try to keep an eye on it to see what direction it's going, then fly in that direction and watch the mini-map for it...

Green? It's blue for me... or my eyes are doing that thing again... *jabs his fingers rapidly in and out of his eye sockets*

Azelda, you mentioned "drag them" can you actually drag a script into the content area of a prim, or do you cut and paste them every time?

Yeah, you can drag them into the Contents area of a prim, onto the "folder" icon.

Azelda

You can also drag and just drop the script directly on the object, without opening the Contents (via Editing). If the object is a linked set, the script drops into the Parent prim's contents.

Great point about editing scripts in your inventory. This is a very good practice to get in the habit of using.

Bos

Thanks Azelda,

I'm amazed at how fast people respond to posts here!

Well done! Good participation!

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