How to make a build 'no grab'?

ARGGGHHHH!

I just had a minor cat-astrophie. Literally. My cat jumped down from the top of the computer cabinet, pounced on my mouse, and managed to click the mouse so it grabbed the basement floor of the build I was working on, and took it into my inventory! I suddenly found myself standing in a dirt-walled pit!

Now, I was able to locate the wayward linkset, and put it back. There was enough furniture floating near where the walls were that positioning it properly wasn't too bad. But the point of this is, it is WAY too easy to inadvertantly select part of a house or some other static build, and either move it or take it into inventory. Instead of just 5 prims, it could just as easily have been the whole 120 or so prim house.

I have had this happen far too often before, where an off-target or accidental click caused something that shouldn't move to be moved, or deleted, to taken into inventory. It's usually recoverable, but it's a pain in the tail.

I seem to recall seeing some sort of scripting trick, where you did something to the root prim of a build, and it made the linkset impossible to 'grab'. That there is something one can do to 'lock' a linkset in place, so it won't budge. HOW?

In short, how do you lock a build in place?

You don't need a scripting trick. Edit the prim(s) you don't want taken. On the object tab, click "Lock". (Top checkbox.) This gives you a warning dialog before you take or delete the object.

to lock a prim, or a linkset, you ...ummm... lock it

In edit, top of the object tab, check the 'lock' box and you can't move or edit it, and you can't take or delete it without a warning first.

THANK YOU!

I was looking on the wrong tab, and didn't see that before. Knew something like that should be there, but somehow couldn't find it.

another trick when building to make thiongs easier if you have an accident.

Always start with your root prim on whole nimber coordinates and note them down. if you move it later its then an easy juob to put it back where it was