Re: [Qgis-user] All attribute info GONE!

[Andre Joost]

On 2017-10-05 07:35, Merryn Delaney wrote: Hello, Thank you for the

prompt reply. These are the files that she deleted.. .cpg .
(blank) .prj .qpj .empty .shx

How is it possible that she deleted all files and that the /dbf are
completely gone??


The .shx file is essential to combine geometry and attribute table data.

If the .dbf has been moved or overwritten, it would not land in the 
Windows bin.


There are shapefile recovery tools linked in 
http://support.esri.com/en/technical-article/07161 which can recover 
the geometry at least.


If that fails, you would have to rely on backups (which you should make 
frequently on important data).


HTH,
André Joost

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Re: [Qgis-user] All attribute info GONE!

[Finbar Gillen]

Hi Merryn,

This issue happened to me a few weeks back when one of my colleagues was doing 
edits on .tab file in QGIS.

They went to delete a column in edit mode from the .tab file. When they saved 
it all attributes and geometry were deleted.

The layer name was still in the table of contents but contained no data.

Regards
Finbar

From: Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andreas 
Neumann
Sent: 05 October 2017 08:38
To: Merryn Delaney
Cc: QGIS User List
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] All attribute info GONE!


Hi Merryn,

Sorry, I can't help in this situation.

No backups around with older versions?

Andreas

On 2017-10-05 07:59, Merryn Delaney wrote:
The problem is... that I don't see the geometry. Everything is gone. I only see 
the name of the layer on the left of the page (let's say 'fencing') but there 
is no geometry and no attributes. Surely she didn't delete all the geometries 
associated with that layer and saved it? o I'm desperate. Months of work 
gone down the drain.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Andreas Neumann 
<a.neum...@carto.net<mailto:a.neum...@carto.net>> wrote:

Hi Merryn,

A feature in (Q)GIS always consists of geometry AND attributes. So if your 
geometries are around, also your attributes should be around. If you delete a 
feature, both geometry and attributes are removed for this particular feature.

If your attributes are gone, double check if the naming scheme is really 
correct. You mentioned that you don't see file extensions in Windows. You need 
to enable the display of the file extensions in the windows explorer to see 
them. Double check that they have the same basename and then just one extension 
(not accidentally two).

One can delete attribute table columns in the layer properties. But I don't 
think one does this by accident.

Andreas

On 2017-10-05 07:49, Merryn Delaney wrote:
Thanks Andreas,
I have found the .DBF. Sorry another question. Do you think it's possible that 
a person can delete (accidentally) all attributes info from a DBF? Maybe using 
the save as function? It seems really strange that all the info (polygons etc) 
have gone like that.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Andreas Neumann 
<a.neum...@carto.net<mailto:a.neum...@carto.net>> wrote:

Hi Merryn,

Ok - so it looks like you seem to use shp-Files. You absolutely need the .dbf 
file in order to view the attributes. Without this file, it won't work.

Sorry I can't help here - I don't know what happened in your system. Try to 
find the corresponding .dbf files.

Greetings,

Andreas

On 2017-10-05 07:35, Merryn Delaney wrote:
Hello,
Thank you for the prompt reply.
These are the files that she deleted..
.cpg
. (blank)
.prj
.qpj
.empty
.shx

How is it possible that she deleted all files and that the /dbf are completely 
gone??

Thank you.
M.

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Andreas Neumann 
<a.neum...@carto.net<mailto:a.neum...@carto.net>> wrote:

Hi Merryn,

What data formats are you using?

In case you are using shapefiles - can you check if all the necessary files are 
around? Note that a shapefile consists of several files:
· .shp --> geometry
· .dbf --> attributes (perhaps this file is missing?)
· .prj --> projection info
· .shx --> index file
· potentially more.

All files would have the same name, but they would have different file 
extensions. You need at least those two.

The two most important ones are .shp .dbf

Greetings,

Andreas

On 2017-10-05 07:25, Merryn Delaney wrote:
I've just got back home from maternity leave. The person who replaced me was 
not familiar with mapping softwares. I go back to open QGIS file and I discover 
that the main file and associated subfiles have been deleted. I restore them 
from the bins but when I open all the vectors are still there but attribute 
tables are empty!!! If i zoom to the file it doesn't show anything. Does anyone 
know what she could have done and how I can fix it? Is it possible that she 
saved as the vector with the same name and accidentally deleted all the data 
existing data??

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Re: [Qgis-user] All attribute info GONE!

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Merryn, 

Sorry, I can't help in this situation. 

No backups around with older versions? 

Andreas 

On 2017-10-05 07:59, Merryn Delaney wrote:

> The problem is... that I don't see the geometry. Everything is gone. I only 
> see the name of the layer on the left of the page (let's say 'fencing') but 
> there is no geometry and no attributes. Surely she didn't delete all the 
> geometries associated with that layer and saved it? o I'm desperate. 
> Months of work gone down the drain.  
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:57 PM, Andreas Neumann  wrote:
> 
> Hi Merryn, 
> 
> A feature in (Q)GIS always consists of geometry AND attributes. So if your 
> geometries are around, also your attributes should be around. If you delete a 
> feature, both geometry and attributes are removed for this particular 
> feature. 
> 
> If your attributes are gone, double check if the naming scheme is really 
> correct. You mentioned that you don't see file extensions in Windows. You 
> need to enable the display of the file extensions in the windows explorer to 
> see them. Double check that they have the same basename and then just one 
> extension (not accidentally two). 
> 
> One can delete attribute table columns in the layer properties. But I don't 
> think one does this by accident. 
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2017-10-05 07:49, Merryn Delaney wrote: 
> Thanks Andreas, 
> I have found the .DBF. Sorry another question. Do you think it's possible 
> that a person can delete (accidentally) all attributes info from a DBF? Maybe 
> using the save as function? It seems really strange that all the info 
> (polygons etc) have gone like that. 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Andreas Neumann  wrote:
> 
> Hi Merryn, 
> 
> Ok - so it looks like you seem to use shp-Files. You absolutely need the .dbf 
> file in order to view the attributes. Without this file, it won't work. 
> 
> Sorry I can't help here - I don't know what happened in your system. Try to 
> find the corresponding .dbf files. 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2017-10-05 07:35, Merryn Delaney wrote: 
> Hello, 
> Thank you for the prompt reply. 
> These are the files that she deleted.. 
> .cpg 
> . (blank) 
> .prj 
> .qpj 
> .empty 
> .shx 
> 
> How is it possible that she deleted all files and that the /dbf are 
> completely gone?? 
> 
> Thank you. 
> M. 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Andreas Neumann  wrote:
> 
> Hi Merryn, 
> 
> What data formats are you using? 
> 
> In case you are using shapefiles - can you check if all the necessary files 
> are around? Note that a shapefile consists of several files: 
> 
> * .shp --> geometry
> * .dbf --> attributes (perhaps this file is missing?)
> * .prj --> projection info
> * .shx --> index file
> * potentially more.
> 
> All files would have the same name, but they would have different file 
> extensions. You need at least those two. 
> 
> The two most important ones are .shp .dbf 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Andreas 
> 
> On 2017-10-05 07:25, Merryn Delaney wrote: 
> 
> I've just got back home from maternity leave. The person who replaced me was 
> not familiar with mapping softwares. I go back to open QGIS file and I 
> discover that the main file and associated subfiles have been deleted. I 
> restore them from the bins but when I open all the vectors are still there 
> but attribute tables are empty!!! If i zoom to the file it doesn't show 
> anything. Does anyone know what she could have done and how I can fix it? Is 
> it possible that she saved as the vector with the same name and accidentally 
> deleted all the data existing data?? 
> 
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Re: [Qgis-user] All attribute info GONE!

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Merryn, 

A feature in (Q)GIS always consists of geometry AND attributes. So if
your geometries are around, also your attributes should be around. If
you delete a feature, both geometry and attributes are removed for this
particular feature. 

If your attributes are gone, double check if the naming scheme is really
correct. You mentioned that you don't see file extensions in Windows.
You need to enable the display of the file extensions in the windows
explorer to see them. Double check that they have the same basename and
then just one extension (not accidentally two). 

One can delete attribute table columns in the layer properties. But I
don't think one does this by accident. 

Andreas 

On 2017-10-05 07:49, Merryn Delaney wrote:

> Thanks Andreas, 
> I have found the .DBF. Sorry another question. Do you think it's possible 
> that a person can delete (accidentally) all attributes info from a DBF? Maybe 
> using the save as function? It seems really strange that all the info 
> (polygons etc) have gone like that. 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:43 PM, Andreas Neumann  wrote:
> 
> Hi Merryn, 
> 
> Ok - so it looks like you seem to use shp-Files. You absolutely need the .dbf 
> file in order to view the attributes. Without this file, it won't work. 
> 
> Sorry I can't help here - I don't know what happened in your system. Try to 
> find the corresponding .dbf files. 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Andreas
> 
> On 2017-10-05 07:35, Merryn Delaney wrote: 
> Hello, 
> Thank you for the prompt reply. 
> These are the files that she deleted.. 
> .cpg 
> . (blank) 
> .prj 
> .qpj 
> .empty 
> .shx 
> 
> How is it possible that she deleted all files and that the /dbf are 
> completely gone?? 
> 
> Thank you. 
> M. 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Andreas Neumann  wrote:
> 
> Hi Merryn, 
> 
> What data formats are you using? 
> 
> In case you are using shapefiles - can you check if all the necessary files 
> are around? Note that a shapefile consists of several files: 
> 
> * .shp --> geometry
> * .dbf --> attributes (perhaps this file is missing?)
> * .prj --> projection info
> * .shx --> index file
> * potentially more.
> 
> All files would have the same name, but they would have different file 
> extensions. You need at least those two. 
> 
> The two most important ones are .shp .dbf 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Andreas 
> 
> On 2017-10-05 07:25, Merryn Delaney wrote: 
> 
> I've just got back home from maternity leave. The person who replaced me was 
> not familiar with mapping softwares. I go back to open QGIS file and I 
> discover that the main file and associated subfiles have been deleted. I 
> restore them from the bins but when I open all the vectors are still there 
> but attribute tables are empty!!! If i zoom to the file it doesn't show 
> anything. Does anyone know what she could have done and how I can fix it? Is 
> it possible that she saved as the vector with the same name and accidentally 
> deleted all the data existing data?? 
> 
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Re: [Qgis-user] All attribute info GONE!

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Merryn, 

What data formats are you using? 

In case you are using shapefiles - can you check if all the necessary
files are around? Note that a shapefile consists of several files: 

* .shp --> geometry
* .dbf --> attributes (perhaps this file is missing?)
* .prj --> projection info
* .shx --> index file
* potentially more.

All files would have the same name, but they would have different file
extensions. You need at least those two. 

The two most important ones are .shp .dbf 

Greetings, 

Andreas 

On 2017-10-05 07:25, Merryn Delaney wrote:

> I've just got back home from maternity leave. The person who replaced me was 
> not familiar with mapping softwares. I go back to open QGIS file and I 
> discover that the main file and associated subfiles have been deleted. I 
> restore them from the bins but when I open all the vectors are still there 
> but attribute tables are empty!!! If i zoom to the file it doesn't show 
> anything. Does anyone know what she could have done and how I can fix it? Is 
> it possible that she saved as the vector with the same name and accidentally 
> deleted all the data existing data?? 
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