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So some of you may have noticed this listing says the pine, it is not called the pine. It is called Virtual Beach, the day osw went offline it somehow changed the name to the pine. I keep changing it back but it seems to revert bk. any ideas would be helpful.
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Someone who doesn't know what OpenSimWorld beacons actually are has copied your beacon and placed it on their own sim named The Pine.
Result: Both Virtual Beach and The Pine send data to OpenSimWorld with the same beacon code, and OpenSimWorld takes both for the same sim because it can only distinguish sims by their beacon codes.
Solution:
* Go to the Virtual Beach entry on OpenSimWorld. (Do not delete it!)
* Generate a new beacon code. Copy it. You may want to save it somewhere for now.
* Go to Virtual Beach in-world.
* Click the beacon and open the admin menu.
* Enter the newly-generated beacon code.
Now Virtual Beach has an individual beacon code again, and The Pine can no longer interfere.
IMPORTANT: You also have to keep this from happening again. This is actually mentioned in the manual notecard, but many sim owners stop reading at the point where the beacon is connected to OSW. It works, so why bother continuing?
So what you have to do is:
* Edit the beacon.
* Uncheck "Copy" under "Everyone" so that nobody can copy the beacon anymore.
Actually, the most up-to-date beacons have a safeguard against this. When you rez a beacon that you've copied from some other sim on your land, it automatically resets and deletes the entered beacon key.
So it sounds like your beacon is outdated. Either it has been standing on Virtual Beach full-perm for years, or if you've actually built Virtual Beach just recently, it has been lingering in your inventory for years.
If you want to be absolutely safe, get the most recent OpenSimWorld tools box, up-to-date beacon included, from its official source, Satyr Aeon's own OpenSimWorld sim (https://opensimworld.com/hop/74730).
Only ever get these things from there, never from some third-party sims. OSW boxes on third-party sims are likely to either go or already be outdated. I've recently discovered OSW boxes in freebie stores run by an acquaintance of mine. They were from 2017, and he didn't even know they were outdated.
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Result: Both Virtual Beach and The Pine send data to OpenSimWorld with the same beacon code, and OpenSimWorld takes both for the same sim because it can only distinguish sims by their beacon codes.
Solution:
* Go to the Virtual Beach entry on OpenSimWorld. (Do not delete it!)
* Generate a new beacon code. Copy it. You may want to save it somewhere for now.
* Go to Virtual Beach in-world.
* Click the beacon and open the admin menu.
* Enter the newly-generated beacon code.
Now Virtual Beach has an individual beacon code again, and The Pine can no longer interfere.
IMPORTANT: You also have to keep this from happening again. This is actually mentioned in the manual notecard, but many sim owners stop reading at the point where the beacon is connected to OSW. It works, so why bother continuing?
So what you have to do is:
* Edit the beacon.
* Uncheck "Copy" under "Everyone" so that nobody can copy the beacon anymore.
Actually, the most up-to-date beacons have a safeguard against this. When you rez a beacon that you've copied from some other sim on your land, it automatically resets and deletes the entered beacon key.
So it sounds like your beacon is outdated. Either it has been standing on Virtual Beach full-perm for years, or if you've actually built Virtual Beach just recently, it has been lingering in your inventory for years.
If you want to be absolutely safe, get the most recent OpenSimWorld tools box, up-to-date beacon included, from its official source, Satyr Aeon's own OpenSimWorld sim (https://opensimworld.com/hop/74730).
Only ever get these things from there, never from some third-party sims. OSW boxes on third-party sims are likely to either go or already be outdated. I've recently discovered OSW boxes in freebie stores run by an acquaintance of mine. They were from 2017, and he didn't even know they were outdated.