Cat shows "COPY-DELETE ME" when relogging after viewer crashed

[Stenelaide Resident]

Hi everyone,
this has been going on for quite a while and every time I have to reach support to get a fresh copy. I like to wear my cats and walk around with them at all times and unfortunately sometimes the viewer crashes. Every single time this happens I have to contact support because my cats show that annoying red text. Is this happening to me only? It is a know bug? Is there anything I can do to avoid that happening without saying goodbye to walks with my cats? Thank you in advance for your replies.

[FoxieCat Resident]

Hi there!

This is a common issue for those that crash while wearing their cats, sadly there isn't much we can do to avoid this issue, but we will always get your kitties back home safe and sound

[Tad Carlucci]

Yeah. I'd have to look, but IIRC the LL JIRA for this goes back over a decade.

[Jessica Brennman]

(05-20-2020 01:33 PM)Stenelaide Resident Wrote:  Hi everyone,
this has been going on for quite a while and every time I have to reach support to get a fresh copy. I like to wear my cats and walk around with them at all times and unfortunately sometimes the viewer crashes. Every single time this happens I have to contact support because my cats show that annoying red text. Is this happening to me only? It is a know bug? Is there anything I can do to avoid that happening without saying goodbye to walks with my cats? Thank you in advance for your replies.

5 years later and this happens to me daily, always of course with my most prized costume kittys and menagerie tigers, it so disappointing they (KC or LL or FS, none will even acknowledge its an issue and all just pass off to the other as "not my problem") wont fix this and every other day I have to go over 24 hours without my cats :-(

[Tad Carlucci]

As KittyCats said, above, there literally is nothing they can do about this. Neither Kittycats nor the viewer maintainers can work arorund the issue.

If your viewer crashes while you're holding a cat, the detach events never fire. This can (probably will) leave the cat in an invalid state. It happens to other scripted attachments which depend upon the detach events. You don't notice it because, for most scripted objects, it really doesn't matter.

The problem is, from the server's point of view, (and, therefore, your cat's amd KittyCats) there is no way to know you've crashed. You could just be AFK or suffering very bad lag.

Just so you know, the error doesn't actually happen when you crash. It happens when your next log-in attempt fails; which is the server kicking the "old you" out and making way for a "new you" to log in successfully on your next attemp.