As you can read in the link posted my Mathias, everyone can have a simple but really important workaround. Abandon shapefile definitively or use it only as interchange format.
Luigi Pirelli ************************************************************************************************** * Boundless QGIS Support/Development: lpirelli AT boundlessgeo DOT com * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir * Mastering QGIS: https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/mastering-qgis ************************************************************************************************** On 20 January 2016 at 07:34, Matthias Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is some more eplanation of the issue: > > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/58101/how-to-avoid-creating-corrupt-shapefiles-during-editing/79677#79677 > > I spent quite some time to fix this issue as much as possible from QGIS side > (Hint: "they" are not just lazy and ignore problems ;-) ) > It seems that there is also a second (closely related) problem left to be > solved and it looks that it can be solved by shipping a newer GDAL version. > Apparently the issue has not been completely solved yet and apparently it is > considered to be from "critical" over "big fail" to "fatal" from the > audience. > It would be awesome if you could ask the maintainer of your operation > system's builds for a quote to ship QGIS with GDAL 2.0 on your operation > system. We will gladly provide you with email addresses. > > Best regards, > Matthias > > > On 01/19/2016 10:54 PM, Mats Elfström wrote: > > Hi! > While all that Nicolas and Uwe says is generally true and reasonable, it is > also true that bugs and errors can be more or less dangerous. > With limited resources, it is even more important that bugs are handled > according to a simple risk analysis. > In this case, it would go something like this: > What is the probability that users will edit shape files (high, moderate, > low): High > What is the probability that QGIS will damage shape files: Moderate (as I > understand) > What is the severity of the potential damage (fatal, reparable, negligible): > Fatal > And High * Moderate * Fatal equals a probable risk for fatal damage, which > ought to prompt for a rapid fix of ths bug, regardless of where it resides > in the QGIS ecosystem. > But oddly enough, I have browsed through many of the posts on the shape file > issue, but have yet to find a technical description of the exact cause and > origin of this bug. > > Regards, Mats.E > > > 2016-01-19 22:14 GMT+01:00 Saber Razmjooei > <[email protected]>: >> >> Dear Uwe, >> >> >> >> There are some work-arounds and solutions provided within the ticket. >> >> >> >> Also, work is underway to resolve the issue in the next LTR release. Last >> time I checked (5 minutes ago) it is still present in master. >> >> >> >> I totally agree with you that there should be a warning to users to make >> them aware of this limitation. >> >> >> >> In general, QGIS and other GIS/non-GIS proprietary software come with >> bugs. The reason developers haven’t fixed this bug and other bugs is due to >> lack of resources (time, money). >> >> >> >> The project steering committee is committed to resolving the bugs and they >> have already allocated a big proportion of their income for bug fixing. You >> can see last year’s financial report hear: >> >> http://qgis.org/en/_downloads/PublicQGISfinancialreport2014.pdf >> >> >> >> >> >> If you think, there should be more work done to increase the quality of >> QGIS, you can get involved or contribute to the project: >> >> >> http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Saber >> >> >> >> From: Qgis-user [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >> Uwe Fischer >> Sent: 19 January 2016 19:10 >> To: 'qgis-user ML' >> Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS big fail in deleting Shapes!! >> >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> >> >> today I was working on a shape dataset and I had to delete some features. >> Later I opened the shapefile in ArcMap by chance and I found that the >> features were not deleted. They still did exist. I repeated the process – >> and got the same result. Then, searching the internet, I found this >> incredible post: https://hub.qgis.org/issues/11007 >> >> >> >> It is a well known problem (for 1,5 years!!) that QGIS is not able to >> delete shapes in a reliable way!! I was horrified to read this because it is >> the same as if a Word processor would not be able to delete a letter from a >> text. I cannot understand why the QGIS developers haven’t fix that yet. If >> QGIS really wants to compete with ArcMap, they should fix it as soon as >> possible. At least, the according menu entries or buttons should be >> inactivated if they don’t bring out reliable results. >> >> >> >> My questions are: >> >> · is this information still up to date? I can‘t read all of the 80 >> answers to the post now to get in-depth information ... >> >> · does anybody have information about how they are planning to >> handle this problem at the development team? >> >> · is there a workaround for this? Do the GRASS vector tools bring >> out reliable results? >> >> · are there more of those software errors in QGIS that might lead >> to huge problems in working on vector data and sharing them with others? If >> so, is there a „black list“ of things one is never allowed to use in QGIS if >> you don’t want to destroy your datasets? >> >> >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Uwe Fischer >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended >> solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. >> If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. >> This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the >> individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not >> disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender >> immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete >> this e-mail from your system. 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