Question: Were you doing the copy-paste with the target attributes table open? Don't.
Do it in the map canvas. Alexandre Neto A segunda, 4/07/2022, 17:30, Michael.Dodd via Qgis-user < [email protected]> escreveu: > Thanks that “Export->Save Features, ticking Save Only Selected Features” > worked fine, took just a few seconds. > > > > Have not tried the other suggestion from someone else about the spatial > index but the file I was pasting into was empty so I am not sure it had a > spatial index to start with. > > > > *From:* David Strip <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, July 4, 2022 5:15 PM > *To:* Michael.Dodd <[email protected]>; '[email protected]' > <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Qgis-user] copy and paste very slow in qgis > > > > CAUTION: This mail comes from outside the University. Please consider this > before opening attachments, clicking links, or acting on the content. > > On 7/4/2022 9:03 AM, Michael.Dodd via Qgis-user wrote: > > I am trying to copy points with their attributes from one layer to another > (actually one geopackage file to another), the select is quick, couple of > mins, bearing in mind there are 800,000 points but when pasting into the > new empty geopackage file it is extremely slow. Less than 10% of the points > need to be pasted but it was taking 40mins before I stopped it and I had no > idea how much longer it would take. There was a hint that it may have done > about 30,000 in 40mins. > > Is there another way to do this, I have also tried switching the selection > and deleting the other 90% but this too is very slow and don’t see the end. > > Have you tried selecting the features, then Export->Save Features, ticking > Save Only Selected Features? > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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