You are correct that Second Inventory attempts to suck/blow (love the analogy!) through the user interface, as well as Meerkat and Emerald viewer.
There are at least a couple of "backup" tools that do attempt to save contents this way - NielLife viewer being the most popular right now, even if it is often used as an SL to SL piracy tool. There is a lot of demand for something that works properly loading and saving OpenSim inventory though. A piracy tool need not bother about frequent errors and minor "fixes", but a legitimate backup or transfer tool needs to be virtually error free to be useful. Neither Second Inventory nor Neillife handle the OpenSim interface very well at present - I suspect that this is the reason. The Niellife internal format is already XML so it should need only minor changes to generate a true IAR file. The SI "local drive" files are encrypted so there is no way to know. I will post a copy of this to both blogs to see if maybe at least ONE of them will produce a workable backup/transfer tool for OpenSim! Karen --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Justin Clark-Casey <[email protected]> wrote: > Loading the IAR via "load iar" should have worked as well - > I would suggest that you double check your password details > first :) > > IARs are one solution for this kind of data storage and > they should remain compatible with future versions of > OpenSim. They have the advantage of probably being > somewhat more reliable and quicker than solutions such as > Second Inventory because they directly interface with the > server rather than sucking/blowing through the client > interface, which isn't built for that kind of thing. > > Of course, this also gives them the disadvantage of only > working if you have region console access (though in > principle somebody could put an interface on which allows > non-region owners to load and save). > > As well as second inventory, I know that some of the other > SL clients (e.g. Imprudence, Meerkat) have inventory suck > and blow built in and store data using a different file > format. I'm not sure what the current state of play is > there - last time I looked the contents of items themselves > were not being saved/restored. _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
