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I just noticed that the "Restore to last position" option for objects in the Lost & Found folder that was restored in 1.26.2.15 seems to have been removed between 1.26.4.17 and 1.26.4.19 in the Mac version of the Cool VL Viewer. I refer to the Mac version only because that is the only one I can test; it is possible that this issue applies to Windows and Linux as well. Has anyone else noticed the same thing?

Not a bug, and it's not specific to Mac versions.

This feature (that caused a lot of trouble for LL's support because of lost objects by residents using it) has recently been removed from SL servers, and since it was never implemented in OpenSim either, I indeed removed it from the viewer.

Ah, I see. Thank you for clearing that up.

Oddly though, Restore To Last Position does still work under 1.26.4.17 in the regions I have tested, despite LL dropping support. I suppose this must be a rolling change that has not reached all servers yet? I am certainly very sorry to see this tremendously useful feature disappear.

Yes, it has already been removed from the RC channels. Or, more exactly, it doesn't work at all properly anymore in them (it attempts to rez at 0,0,0, which of course fails unless you own the land at that point).

Yes, I have read a jira ticket about the 0,0,0 thing. What a half-baked way to handle the issue!

Moving on, I've been thinking about other ways to "document" the position and rotation of objects. In the short-run, as when periodically taking partially completed objects into Inventory while building, one can used the Editor's object clipboard Cut/Paste facility to put the object back to its correct position, but that won't work for longer-term things like putting parts of a house back in position after they have been improperly returned for example.

Obviously one option would be to write down the position/rotation numbers for objects by hand in a notebook or something, but that would be pretty clunky. A better option would be if one could paste the contents of the object clipboard to a notecard or something, and ideally also copy/paste from a notecard into the object clipboard too. That's not a feature I've seen in any viewer however, and I do not know how far it would be doable.