Studio intermittently loading player owned gear into backpack

[GnomeCode]

Reproduction Steps

When testing with ‘Play Solo’ in my various save file projects, studio will sometimes load in my old catalog purchased gear.

This only happens in offline save files, rather than published games.

It is so intermittent I’ve only encountered it 3 or 4 times.

Expected Behavior

No player gear should be loaded.
This should only be enabled in a file that is a published experience AND has gear permissions enabled.

Actual Behavior

Workaround

Stopping and restarting the Play Solo mode will always reset it back to normal.

Issue Area: Studio
Issue Type: Other
Impact: Low
Frequency: Rarely
Date First Experienced: 2022-11-07 00:11:00 (+00:00)
Date Last Experienced: 2022-11-09 00:11:00 (+00:00)

[SubtotalAnt8185]

This issue has been around for half a decade. It has also been reported several months ago:

Gears are enabled in local place files

Hi, it’s been over a month - are there any updates on this?

A temporary fix is to remove the StarterGear folder on join.

[thirdtakeonit]

Thanks for the report! We are aware of this issue.

[tnavarts]

This has been fixed as of a few months ago.

Gear will not load in Studio unless the place is both published and has gear enabled (the same conditions gear will load under in-experience).