[Opensim-users] oar/iar import owner not replaced

[Rick Anderson]

I'll have to work on explaining a little better. I'll put some samples to
together.

IAR Example:
The issues with an IAR was I changed a cube to a torus. That change would
not appear until I loaded to IAR to a different server.



--Rick





On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 28/05/13 22:49, Rick Anderson wrote:
>
>> Justin,
>>
>> I can set up test cases for each condition to repeat the problem. I can
>> duplicate the following below. I can also add
>> the manual object delete command and compare results. Any other cases
>> that would be worth trying?
>>
>> For IAR getting a duplicate name isn't so much a problem, but not having
>> the object update with the new properties is
>> weird. I have deleted the object from my avatars inventory and
>> reimported. Same problem. I went to a new server and the
>> import occurred with the update settings.
>>
>
> Anything loaded to inventory via an IAR will be owned (or certainly
> should!) be owned by you - it's not possible in SL to have inventory
> objects that are owned by somebody else.  So I'm a little confused as to
> what we're talking about here.
>
>
>
>> For OAR I see a message claiming the objects would be deleted. I only
>> changed the owner UUID to match the new owner on
>> the new server. Repetitive loads kept the old owner UUID.
>>
>
> Perhaps this is a corner case, though it would still be quite surprising
> to me as the objects themselves will always be given random UUIDs on load.
>
> In fact, the old owner UUID should only be there is the new server also
> has a user with that UUID.  If not, it should revert to the estate owner.
>  Could it be that somehow the estate owner also has the old UUID?
>
>
>>
>> --Rick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
>> jjustincc at googlemail.com <mailto:jjustincc at googlemail.**com<jjustincc at googlemail.com>>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Rick.  I'm very surprised to hear that since the default behaviour
>> on OAR load is to wipe the region before the
>>     load.  There is a --merge option but this isn't the default.
>>
>>     IARs are a different matter - you will get duplicate inventory items
>> if you don't delete the old ones first.  There
>>     isn't any option to do a replace here.
>>
>>     You can manually wipe a region with the console command
>>
>>     delete object name --regex .*
>>
>>     but this shouldnt' be necessary.
>>
>>
>>     On 28/05/13 21:08, Rick Anderson wrote:
>>
>>         I'm finding if you import an oar or an iar file. Then edit the
>> file the re-import it. The 2nd import fails
>>         because the
>>         originals are still in world and not replaced by the new files in
>> the oar/iar.
>>
>>         Is there flag that will change that?
>>
>>         Also, I had to delete  the regions with those objects, and the re
>> load the iar/oar for changes to take effect.
>>
>>         Is this a bug or there a work around?
>>
>>         --Rick
>>
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>>         Rick Anderson
>>         Director of Virtual Worlds
>>         Division of Continuing Studies (DoCS)
>>         Rutgers University
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Rick Anderson
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Division of Continuing Studies (DoCS)
Rutgers University
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