Help re saving a building to move elsewhere

Hallo,

I have made a small one room home with roof etc on my rented piece of land. I now have obtained my First Land and want to move this little home from my rented address to my owned land.

I am presuming that somehow I save this building to a folder in my inventory which I would then open on my new land, but no matter what I do, I can't fathom how to do that!

If that is the way to move a property, or if there is another way, could someone please kindly let me know what I should do. I am a newbie (although "born" in October, the game kept crashing so I did not arrive until December)! Many thanks and all the best for the New Year to you all.

If the building is small enough to fit on a First Land plot, it's probably small enough to link all at once. The quick and dirty way to do this:

1. Go up to Tools and select "Select Only My Objects."

2. Right click on some part of the house and select "Edit" from the pie menu.

3. Move the mouse up away from the house. Click and drag. You should get a yellow square as you drag, with any of your prims underneath it becoming selected (they should get blue or yellow glowing outlines). Make sure the entire house is selected -- you might have to redo this a couple times before you get the entire house.

4. Go up to Tools again, and select "Link." Now they're all linked together: you can move and rotate and resize them as a group. (If you're getting a message saying you can't link them, you might want to try selecting them again, and then attempt another linking -- sometimes the order in which things are selected determines whether or not they can be linked.)

5. Right click and choose "Take." This will unrez it and stick it in your inventory (in your Objects folder), probably as something unhelpfully called "Object." You might have other items in there called "Object" -- this will be the one at the very top of the list. If you want, you can rename it in inventory: right click it and select "Rename." (Because of a nasty and unpredictable texture bug that exists at the moment, I don't recommend renaming things in world.)

6. Go to your new land site. Open your inventory. Find the house object in your inventory. Click and drag the mouse towards the ground. Make sure the mouse is out of the inventory window and onto the ground on your plot of land (if it's over somebody else's land, this might not work). Once you let go of the mouse button, your house should appear in world.

If you are linking it for the first time be sure to do a test by going into objects and note the "Z" (blue arrow) position while in edit and raise the linked house up into the air to make sure all the peices were linked. If you miss a piece lower it back to the original height and add the piece(s) to the link. Sometimes this doesnt align them perfectly but can be a temporary time saver.

What Miriel and Simstick said. Always try linking first. If that fails because the pieces are too far apart, another (tricky so be careful) solution, is to right click > edit, then ctrl+click all the pieces to make sure they're selected. Then, once you're sure you selected everything, you can right click > take all the pieces into your inventory in one go. They will be stored as a single item, and provided you go into edit mode (ctrl+3) before dragging that 'object' out again, all the pieces will rez according to their previous alignment. Never close the edit window until you've positioned them though.

In the Clientmenu (to get this menu if you dont have it press ctrl+alt+shift+D) there is an option called "Hide selected" under Rendering. This is super-useful to see if you get everything you want to select, because it will "dissapear" temporarily. That means you can even the very small pieces easy. Once you "de-select" them, everything shows again.
I use this feature mainly to get all pieces when i want to link something, but it works for taking everything as one item into inventory as well.