[Opensim-users] Question - About avatar UUID

[Chris]

You're very welcome. And yes, that's fine; you can share my answer :)

On 2/18/2018 1:36 AM, Isis Ophelia wrote:
> Thank you Chris for very useful information.
>
> Do you allow me to share your answer in Google Plus for 2 other persons who
> would like to know the pros and cons to this question too?.
>
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> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:33 AM, Chris <mewtwo0641 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The biggest pro in keeping your prior UUID that I can think of is, if you
>> have backed up your inventory and/or regions via IAR and OAR files
>> respectively, is the assurance that the things that you've created will
>> maintain their proper permissions relative to the UUID that created them.
>> Else when you restore your inventory and regions it is highly likely that
>> you will end up with the wrong permissions on your own items if you didn't
>> think to full perm ahead of time (And even that isn't a guarantee given the
>> finicky-ness of the permissions system in OpenSim) because OpenSim will see
>> your new UUID as technically a completely different person and as such
>> applies the "Next Owner" perms to your items.
>>
>> I can't really think of a major con for keeping your prior UUID aside from
>> possibly cache issues between grids where you've chosen to keep the old one
>> in cases of running multiple grid instances with different databases but
>> same UUID. Which is pretty easily remedied by clearing your viewer cache
>> before switching grids.
>>
>> On 2/17/2018 11:11 AM, Isis Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>>    Fresh installation, my master uuid is new again. And I am wondering,
>>> which
>>> are the pros and cons in using again the prior uuid after one had to start
>>> over?.
>>>
>>> My pros would be that I wouldn't lose my HG contacts. And eventually that
>>> items I have built and shared in the HG, can be tracked to me. That other
>>> grids would recognize my avatar (not sure about this one) maybe they just
>>> care about my DynDns. For example when I purchase in the Kitely
>>> Marketplace.
>>>
>>> Anyone has experiences in taking over the same uuid from prior
>>> installation? Please share with me. Thanks in advanced.
>>>
>>> Isis Ophelia
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