On 16 September 2016 at 16:16, Lene Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nyall, > I have been using 2.16 in a 3 week summer class. We have been using these > functions, and not seen the described errors. > We use OS : Windows 7 and 8 - the MAC users was using 2.14 > > Is it on Linux you get the errors ?
No - it's on Windows. And I can't reproduce it everytime, but it has happened multiple times. Nyall > Regards > > > Lene Fischer > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Qgis-developer [mailto:[email protected]] På vegne > af Nyall Dawson > Sendt: 16. september 2016 03:09 > Til: qgis-developer > Emne: [Qgis-developer] Warning - shapefile corruption on 2.16/master and how > to recover > > Unfortunately a fairly nasty regression has slipped in to 2.16 and is still > present on master. This results in shapefile corruption in certain > circumstances. > > While I've hit this issue maybe 3 or 4 times in the last 2 months, I haven't > been able to track down exactly what causes this. It seems related to using > the split or reshape tool on a shapefile, then saving the changes and getting > the errors "Cannot reopen datasource > xxx.shp|layerid=0 in read-only mode" and "Data source is invalid (Unable to > open xxx.shx or xxx.SHX.Try --config SHAPE_RESTORE_SHX true to restore or > create it)" in the log. > > A full report is at http://hub.qgis.org/issues/15570 > > Hopefully we can resolve this before the next round of releases. In the > meantime, there's a workaround for recovering data: > > In the same folder as the shapefile there'll be additional files > "xxx_packed.shp" and "xxx_packed.shx". Renaming the "xxx_packed.shx" > file to "xxx.shx" allows the original shapefile to be reopened. > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
