Calling Hoarders!! - Inventory Challenge Week 2

Week one of our inventory clean-up challenge started with cleaning out some easy to find items. Two more "easys" came up in the comments that you might add to your list: Demo and Object. I will caution, if you're a builder, you might actually check those objects before mass deleting.... and while you're at it, give yourself a lecture on naming items as you rez them :P This week I went on a total shopping spree (Ohai Truth Hair and Babydolls!), so my number went up (39821). But there's a way do some damage control even if our inventories keep growing.

Lishi's Look: Outfit: Inner Peace Braylyn (Coming to a 50L Friday near you!)
Halloween Hair (includes hat!):  Love Soul
Pumpkin Branch Mouthie: Love Soul Lucky Chair Gift

Week 2 Tip: Using Filters

Okay, this week's going to tackle two areas that can bulk up your numbers unnecessarily: Notecards and Landmarks. For me, these are always the two areas that are the most "tackleable" (because you really don't want to see my exploding texture folder!)

If I knew that I had 23 landmarks from truth (because maybe I bought 23 new hairs), I could search for the LM name and delete them all. But what about all those landmarks that I have which are duplicates that I don't really know about?

Thats' when I use inventory filters. To open filters, first make sure you're on the All items tab, then go to File (on Inventory window)--> Show Filters. On Viewer 2, click the gear at the bottom of inventory--> Show Filters. A popup will appear listing different inventory types. Here you can select, or deselect different types of inventory to display.If I'm going to select only one (like just landmarks) I hit NONE, then check Landmarks. ALL my landmarks appear! Woo!

Here's what I do next:

I delete the ones where I immediately see multiple copies. Then, I drag the rest, by folder into a folder in my Landmarks folder. So, all the animation landmarks go into an animation folder in my Landmarks folder. Then, I can sort by name (Sort--> by Name) and easily see duplicates. I don't keep LM's for most places though, usually just for the places I frequent... I figure I can look up the less frequent places by creator names when I need to, so if it's from hunts or stuff like that, those are definitely trashed.

Now, just because this works for me, doesn't mean it'll work for you! Do what works for you! Some people delete them all. Some people like to put LM's on notecards and keep them all sorted by notecard. Some people sort them in folders. What else do you do?

So now that you get the gist of using filters, this week's steps:

Week 2 Challenge Steps:

1) Using filters, clean out duplicate or unneeded landmarks and/or...
2) Using filters, clean out info notecards, and other notecards that aren't needed (do you really need 50 notes on how to resize your skirts?)
and
3) Check for Demos, Objects, and any of last week's quick check items.

Bonus step: 

4) Use filters to search for unneeded scripts

*Remember, if you post your start and end number in comments this week, at the end of the 4 weeks, you'll get a super special gift! If doing all of the challenge is too much, do a little! Some is better than none!*