I had similar problems. My workaround (not a solution) was migrating the dbf to a sqlite db. I use grass to do it (db.copy)
2008/8/11 Werner Macho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Richard, > > Probably that doesn't help you at all but the only program I know (And > unfortunately HAVE to use when editing bigger .dbf files than the > mentioned 65536 lines) is the statistical program SPSS. > > Very rarely I have to edit such big files too and still found no other > way to comfortably edit those files. > > But I'd like to see such capability in QGis too > > regards > Werner > > On Mo, 2008-08-11 at 18:38 +0200, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> I've these pretty big .dbf-files (that is more then the 64000something >> you can edit in Excel/Openoffice), without corresponding shp file. >> I was told to edit those in arcview, but off course wanted to do this in >> qgis. But I fail to open/edit them. >> >> I tried both in metis in xp and ubuntu. I can open the file (as a >> 'raster'), but when I try to look at the 'table', qgis either shows the >> columns, but empty fields of crashes (in ubuntu rasing a warning: >> WARNING: This code (file >> /build/buildd/qgis-0.11.0/src/core/qgsvectorlayer.cpp, line 1068) should >> never be reached. Problems may occur... >> >> question: >> should qgis be able to edit a stand-alone dbf-file? >> if so, what's the right way to do this/ >> if not: I'm aware there are other options to do this ;-) >> >> Regards, >> >> Richard Duivenvoorde >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user