Shall we? Stop whining about things are not smooth as we wish. We all know they are not. Let's do something about that. Consider that an ecology action. If each of us spend ten minutes and delete all the trash that clutters our inventories…

Trash

Yes, sounds crazy, but do some math. At the end of the action you'll have more than thousand items less. Multiply that with the number of the residents we can get into this. Now we are speaking… millions! That will make a difference. And it is just ten minutes and a few words.

Benefits:  

  • Making the grid doing better.
  • Your inventory mess won't disappear but you'll find your way through it a bit easier.
  • Your inventory will load faster. 

OK, let's see what we can do (don't empty trash before you're finished)

  • Chances are that there is more than a thousand of freebie items in your inventory that you will never use again (if you ever did). Those are usually packed in some folders deep down the inventory. Crappy dances you would be embarassed to play, script examples though you never did scripting, texture bundles though you don't build, vehicles, lamps, prefab houses… Throw them away! Now! Don't even check what's inside. In the case that you might need some of those (why?) it will be easier to find them in the freebie store then in the inventory. Don't carry rubbish with yourself.
  • Most of the landmarks older than three months are not working anymore. Things change fast in second life. Go to your landmarks folder, do a quick check and delete everything older than that. All of a sudden that folder makes sense, right?
  • Same goes to the notecards. How many greeting bullshit you have collected in the past months? Manuals? Invitations? Rules of the sims that doesn't exist anymore? No, nobody will ever need that. Be careful not to trash love letters from your past. Though, if those are worth keeping, they are already safe in the separate folder.
  • Do a search for "floating text". If you never did that before you have at least 500 of identical scripts with that name. Those are responsible for text over the boxes in which we pack things. Select them all and trash them. Don't select folders though.
  • Dozens of versions of your builds. If you build you know what this means. Every time when you click Take copy another item shows up in your inventory. And you do that often while you build. Yes, you can just save them but sometimes different versions as project develops are good to have. But you don't need them when you finish it. You need final version. So… you know what to do.
  • Take a peak in your Lost and Found folder. What a lovely collection of all the things you lost around the grid, vehicles you parked and forgot, toys with enabled physics that just went away on their own….
  • Search for "demo". How many of those? Do you need them?

Ok, now check the number of items on the top of your inventory, empty trash, feel the grid breathing a bit easier under your feet, check the number again, subtract those two numbers… How many? Two thousands or more? Tell us in comments.

And spread the word! This works better if more of us do it. Let's multiply that number!

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