I have 199 point shapefiles of water depths that I would like to display and edit using QGIS.  Since all of these shapefiles are in one geographic area, I would like the symbology to be the same for all the files, but don't want to point & click to setup the symbology 199 times!  (Each will have 10-20 identical colors per file based on water depth.)  I thought maybe I could combine these shapefiles into a "group", then set the symbology for the entire group at one time. 

I don't know if this will work because I haven't been able to group the layers yet.  According to qgis-1.6.0_user_guide_en.pdf, "layers can be grouped in the legend window by adding a layer group and dragging layers into the group."  I can right-click and create the group, but I cannot drag anything into it.  The files always end up above or below the new group in the legend window. 

Am I missing something in the procedure to populate the group and would this even work for changing symbology?   Is there a better way to change the symbology for 199 files at one time?  I'm not afraid to edit the .qml/.qgs files, but this will also be tedious for 199 files!

I am running QGIS 1.6.0 on a Slackware 13.1 system.  (I have also tried this with revision 15388 with the same results.)

                                        Thanks,
                                           Jim


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