[Opensim-users] Moving Avatars from Region to Region

[Levi Martson]

Thanks guys! I will give a shot!

Levi

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Levi Martson
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 17:56, Jason Shipley <core at aliensignals.com> wrote:

> On 2/7/2011 5:17 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>  Both Ken and Justin are correct.  The only reliable way is to manually
> alter the DB tables.  It's actually not terribly complicated and I've done
> it may times.  Just create, via console command, a user with the same name
> in the new OS instance.  With the new bare-bones inventory and attributes
> now added to the DB you can begin replacing references to the new UUID with
> whatever the old UUID value was.  I'm not making any assumptions as to your
> familiarity/comfort level with manually editing DB tables, but if you want a
> friendly GUI that is more elegant that the standard phpMyAdmin interface,
> you might want to try MySQLBuddy - http://http://www.sqlbuddy.com.  It's
> all just cutting and pasting from then on.
>
> NOTE: Make all of the changes (there really aren't that many) BEFORE you
> import any previous inventory .iar files.  Once the main identity values are
> changed, any subsequent imported assets will inherit the new UUID for
> ownership.  Also, I'm not sure what OpenSim version you're running, but if
> it's 0.7.x the main tables you need to be concerned with are:
>
> auth (UUID field)
> useraccounts (PrincipleID field)
> inventoryfolders (agentID field)
> estate_settings (EstateOwner field)
>
> Hope this helps.  Good luck and happy hacking...
>
> Jason (.core)
>
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