Re: [Qgis-user] Automatically ordering layers & best practice for transferring data

2020-06-16 Thread RMG 
Hi Nicolas,

Many thanks. Load Them All looks promising.

Best regards,

Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
Comoé Monkey Project 
Guenon Conservation Community





On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:23 PM Nicolas Cadieux <
nicolas.cadi...@archeotec.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> See below
> On 2020-06-16 12:39 p.m., RMG wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a lot of layers that are often similar in names and structures
> (e.g., 2018-01-20_daily-path_length, 2018-01-21_daily-path_length,
> 2018-01-22_daily-path_length ), but not always. Is there a way to
> automatically order the layers by alphabetical order, date, etc.? I am not
> talking about grouping or sub-grouping. I am looking for a function that
> would allow us to sort them by certain specifics (e.g., order by
> modification date, order by rasters then vectors).
>
> There was an experimental  sort layer plugin but I can't find it from QGIS
> 3x. Only on the web site.  Maybe it has not been ported to qgis 3x.
> Anybody???  I believe the "Load them all" plugin could help also.
>
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/SortLayers/
>
> Some code found here could help.
>
>
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/318834/sort-layers-in-table-of-contents-in-qgis-3
>
> Second question. What is the best practice for transferring data from one
> external hard drive to another? A 2TB drive is full with a lot of Landsat
> images and now I would like to transfer the data to a 4TB one. How do I
> make sure that I have a smooth workflow without looking for layers within
> each project?
>
> Regards,
>
> Personally, I used Syncbacks free or SE.
> https://www.2brightsparks.com/welcome/syncback-syncbackse-syncbackpro.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw26H3BRB2EiwAy32zhVgBM3Bb_uJ-H69UvKghHCBr7yB8rDZ3evsXuY1ASKJYsv5O3HT0yxoC5_YQAvD_BwE
>
> You could always just copy and paste from one drive to the other.  This
> can work if you are not accessing the files from the drives at the same
> time.  Never *cut* and paste. That can be messy if things go wrong.  If
> you keep the same file structure, QGIS projects should work on the second
> drive. Your hard drive may also have a free software to do the job.  I
> would keep the first drive as a backup.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
> Comoé Monkey Project 
> Guenon Conservation Community
> 
>
>
>
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Re: [Qgis-user] Automatically ordering layers & best practice for transferring data

2020-06-16 Thread Nicolas Cadieux 

Hi,

See below

On 2020-06-16 12:39 p.m., RMG wrote:

Hello,

I have a lot of layers that are often similar in names and structures 
(e.g., 2018-01-20_daily-path_length, 2018-01-21_daily-path_length, 
2018-01-22_daily-path_length ), but not always. Is there a way to 
automatically order the layers by alphabetical order, date, etc.? I am 
not talking about grouping or sub-grouping. I am looking for a 
function that would allow us to sort them by certain specifics (e.g., 
order by modification date, order by rasters then vectors).


There was an experimental  sort layer plugin but I can't find it from 
QGIS 3x. Only on the web site.  Maybe it has not been ported to qgis 
3x.  Anybody???  I believe the "Load them all" plugin could help also.


https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/SortLayers/

Some code found here could help.

https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/318834/sort-layers-in-table-of-contents-in-qgis-3

Second question. What is the best practice for transferring data from 
one external hard drive to another? A 2TB drive is full with a lot of 
Landsat images and now I would like to transfer the data to a 4TB one. 
How do I make sure that I have a smooth workflow without looking for 
layers within each project?


Regards,


Personally, I used Syncbacks free or SE. 
https://www.2brightsparks.com/welcome/syncback-syncbackse-syncbackpro.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw26H3BRB2EiwAy32zhVgBM3Bb_uJ-H69UvKghHCBr7yB8rDZ3evsXuY1ASKJYsv5O3HT0yxoC5_YQAvD_BwE 



You could always just copy and paste from one drive to the other.  This 
can work if you are not accessing the files from the drives at the same 
time.  Never *cut* and paste. That can be messy if things go wrong.  If 
you keep the same file structure, QGIS projects should work on the 
second drive. Your hard drive may also have a free software to do the 
job.  I would keep the first drive as a backup.


Cheers!

Nicolas




Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
Comoé Monkey Project 
Guenon Conservation Community 





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