Barry / Ramon, Thanks for the advice.
I have looked into the project files using TextPad. I noticed a few differences between a different 1.6 file and the 1.7 file, but after changing these, it still crashes. With there being over 600 lines of XML in the project, and a large workload on my desk, I think i'll just have to re-create the projects, it will be much faster. Kind regards, Rob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: 01 July 2011 10:59 To: uk52rob Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Convert v1.7 project files to v1.6? On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:41 AM, uk52rob <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > > > I have now moved back to v1.6 after the many issues faced with v1.7, and I > support Andreas Neumann's e-mail of yesterday. > > > > The issue I am now up against is that v1.6 cannot open v1.7 project files, > it simply crashes. Project files which were not opened and saved in v1.7 are > still fine. > > > > I have been into v1.7 on another windows computer, but there is no option to > save the project as a backwards compatible file. Perhaps this can be an > option for the future? > > > > If anyone has any solutions to this, I would be grateful. Otherwise, I will > have to re-create the projects manually in v1.6. > Not got a full solution, but you might get some joy from editing .qgs files manually - they are XML and so can be edited using a text editor (eg emacs on Unix, notepad++ on Windows). I've done some comparisons by loading 1.6 files into 1.7 and saving, then diffing the results. Apart from the change of version in the header there's a few tags that appear in 1.7, and some other differences. If your projects aren't that complicated you could possibly manually edit a 1.7 file back to 1.6 compatibility. Hope that's not too impossible or too obvious. I suspect saving as an old version from 1.7 might be difficult given new functionality in 1.7. But if people are finding 1.7 broken.... yikes... Barry _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
