[Opensim-users] Inventory Broken Links

[Mike Chase]

They need to be wearing at least the basic skin, hair, eyes, shape for 
things to work.  Most likely the Current Outfits folder is empty and so 
they don't have these basic elements.

Mike

On 1/6/15 12:52 PM, Drover, Matt wrote:
> I¹m back at this now that the holidays are over, here is what happened
> last month. I exported all my users to iars and islands to oars. Created a
> new world and imported them all. The users¹ current outfit got messed up
> and now they cannot wear anything because of the error.²Cannot wear
> blahblah until shape is downloaded." Which it never does.
>
> I think my issue here is that I copied over the avatars table from the old
> grid.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> -Matt
>
> On 2014-12-17, 4:26 PM, "Ai Austin" <ai.ai.austin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Drover, Matt <mattdrover at mun.ca
>>> <mailto:mattdrover at mun.ca>> wrote:
>>>>      To repair some database issues, I exported all my
>>> islands/users to oars/iars and imported them in a new grid.
>>>>      Everything worked great, except my current outfit is not
>>> rezing and in my inventory next to each item it says
>>>>      (broken link). I?ve checked and all the assets/textures are
>>> in the database, so I know they came over. What exactly
>>>>      does broken link mean? And how can I fix it?
>>
>> Matt, there is a way to manually repair the broken symbolic links
>> using the Firestorm viewer latest release 4.6.9  by right clicking on
>> any broken link and selecting "Replace Links"... but as you can
>> understand its a very laborious process and only suited for
>> identifying the actual assets that are still in their correct
>> place.  For those with many outfits or symbolic links. its much
>> better just to start from scratch and make new outfits.
>>
>> I move all the broken "My Outfits" sub-folders into a new folder
>> "Broken Outfits" and use those as a guide to what I need in the
>> outfits, but the start from scratch.
>>
>> Remember "Current Outfit" is broken as well, which is why every
>> avatar on the rebuilt grid will initially show as a cloud.  So every
>> avatar does need to select and wear a new outfit.  I provide a "Ruth"
>> new outfit or they can select whatever initial avatar they had for
>> that purpose for every avatar.
>>
>> I have not tried your idea of doing data base changes to make this
>> smoother for users.   I just tell them on login to the rebuilt grid
>> to re-wear their basic body items and suitable clothing items and
>> then they will rez and not be a cloud.  Then they should save that
>> outfit again.
>>
>>
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