Hi Spring, Which version of QGIS are you using?
On 06/22/2016 11:15 AM, Springfield Harrison wrote: > Hello Alexandre, > > Ok, thank you. That is cumbersome but does work I guess. > > Does "Save As" clear out the deleted features or do they live on > as ghosts? > > Thank you, cheers . . . . Spring > > > At 22-06-2016 01:54 Wednesday, Alexandre Neto wrote: > >> Hello Spring, >> >> This has to do with the way qgis (GDAL) handles the feature deletion. >> Instead of totally removing them (which takes longer) it mark them as >> deleted. >> >> The (not very elegant) workaround here is to save the layer to a new >> shapefile using save as... >> >> Hope it helps >> >> A qua, 22/06/2016, 09:39, Springfield Harrison <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu: >> >> Hello All, >> >>     I have been opening QGIS shapefiles in Manifold GIS and >> noticed that >> they bear very little resemblance to the same file in QGIS, in some >> cases. When I then saved that file in QGIS as a different file, and >> opened it in Manifold GIS, all the features were present and arranged >> as expected. >> >>     On another occasion, it looked like previously deleted >> polygons were >> visible when opened in Manifold GIS. >> >>     And, in another instance, when attempting in QGIS to create a >> polygon, that failed. Instead, portions of old, deleted polygons >> were reactivated instead! What is going on here? This does not look >> like trustworthy behavior. >> >>     I tried using SpatiaLite files instead of shapefiles, but >> there edit >> and feature creation failed outright. >> >>     I believe this has been dealt with earlier; could someone >> point me >> to the discussion? I did a brief search but could not find the >> relevant posts. >> >>         Thanks very much, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring >> Harrison >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> -- >> Alexandre Neto >> --------------------- >> @AlexNetoGeo >> http://sigsemgrilhetas.wordpress.com >> http://gisunchained.wordpress.com <http://gisunchained.wordpress.com/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
