[Opensim-users] Moving Avatars from Region to Region

Justin Clark-Casey jjustincc at googlemail.com
Mon Feb 7 23:17:22 UTC 2011


On 07/02/11 21:12, Ken G wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 01:50 PM, Levi Martson wrote:
>> I guess this might be more for the opensim-dev list, but I'm trying to move the avatar back on the server side of
>> things, not in the viewer side. I need to move avatars from one instance of opensim to another instance of opensim.
>
> As far as I know from being a casual opensim user for the last two years, and lurking here and on the IRC channels,
> there isn't a specific single process for doing this.
>
> You would probably need to recreate each avatar as a new user in the console first. Then if you need the UUIDs to match,
> do a direct edit of the database. Something I've never had reason to do, so if I am wrong well it's open for correction
> here.
>
> For shape and other appearance items, inventory can be transferred with an IAR for each avatar:
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Inventory_Archives

Unfortunately, Ken is right - there's currently no good way of doing this short of recreating the user accounts and 
transferring their inventories manually, if that is required.

Possibly one of the webinterfaces might have a solution for this

http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Webinterface

though I don't have much direct experience with them myself.

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