Linden Lab recovers nearly half a million lost items [updated]

According to Linden Lab, they've unearthed and recovered missing inventory items, totaling nearly half a million lost pieces of Second Life inventory that belonged to over 140,000 users and lost over a long period of time due to bugs and glitches – apparently all as the result of applying some basic consistency checks to the inventory databases.

At present this does not appear to be all of the items lost to users, and more work is being undertaken to locate and restore inventory items that were not restored to users in this pass.

Update: Based (pretty loosely) on the economic statistics, where an average user-to-user transaction works out to around 10.5 Linden Dollars – you can conservatively estimate the value of these lost items to exceed $16,000 US, even assuming some reasonable percentage of them were self-created or free items. That's a pretty rough guide, but it's obvious that there's a lot of value represented by this recovered inventory. It will be interesting to see how much more inventory is recovered in the days to come.