Current Outfit Folder Corruption
The Current Outfit Folder (abbreviated as COF) in your inventory is used to keep track of what you are currently wearing (as the name implies). It is also used to generate your visual appearance, via Server Side Appearance. It is a system folder - ie, not one you should ever place items into.
On rare occasions, this folder can become corrupted. Symptoms of this include:
- only one account is affected;
- you will crash or timeout disconnect at login, usually around “Downloading clothing…”;
- you will likely crash/disconnect on any V3 based viewer or a viewer that uses COF;
- Reinstalling the viewer, clearing cache, replacing outfit on a non-COF viewer will not fix you.
Examination of viewer logs will usually show:
INFO: newview/llappearancemgr.cpp(1998) : LLAppearanceMgr::updateAppearanceFromCOF: starting
Duplicate COF Causing Bakefail
If your avatar is persistently gray or a cloud, and the usual methods of fixing bakefail aren't working, you may have a specific kind of COF corruption: duplicated Current Outfit folders. (In most cases you will see yourself as gray and observers will see you as a cloud.)
You may not be able to see the duplicated folders; in some cases only LL technical support can see them.
To test for this, please do the following:
- Remove all animesh attachments as they will confuse the readings we are about to look at.
- Open Advanced menu (Ctrl-Alt-D) → Debug Settings.
- Find DebugAvatarAppearanceMessage.
- Set that to TRUE.
- Examine the text floating above your head.
- In the middle of the text, you will see “cof” followed by three numbers. Example: “cof: 76,345 req: 76,345 rcv: 76,345”
- These numbers should match each other.
- If they do not match each other, you have duplicate Current Outfit folders.
- Contact LL support and ask them to look at your inventory for duplicate Current Outfit folders. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/English-Knowledge-Base/How-to-contact-customer-support/ta-p/739385