Re: [Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

Hi Andreas The harddisk was not full; about of 200 GB free space. If the whole system was healthy before I cannot say for sure. Everything used to work until suddenly I had problems with shapes and Grass files. Anyway, now it works again. Thanks for your suggestions, Mira On 28/11/16

Re: [Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

Hi Mira, It is highly unlikely that any data can corrupt/modify QGIS as a software. It could crash it, but it can't modify binaries/libraries of QGIS. Not knowing about your situation - are you sure that your whole system was in a healthy state? Perhaps one harddisk or partition was full? That

Re: [Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

Dear all, maybe that's of interest for someone else: I solved the problem by completely removing QGIS and all its configuration files (using 'synaptic' on Linux and some manually) and reinstalling it. I guess the problem emerged from a very large Grass mapset (about 2000 raster and vector

Re: [Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

Zip me the file if it's not confidential. I can test it. > Le 25 nov. 2016 à 12:07, Mira Kattwinkel [via OSGeo.org] > a écrit : > > Hello Nicola > > Thanks for the suggestion but this is not the problem. I did not move > any files and it happens with

Re: [Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

Hello Nicola Thanks for the suggestion but this is not the problem. I did not move any files and it happens with whatever shape file I try. Mira On 25/11/16 17:58, Nicolas Cadieux wrote: Hi, Perhaps you moved or copied the shape files and forgot to move the accompanied files (3 to 8

Re: [Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

Hi, Perhaps you moved or copied the shape files and forgot to move the accompanied files (3 to 8 files with different extensions like .shx .dbf .shp .prj)? If you just move the .shp and not the others, this is will create errors. The .shx contains the geometries. You may get this kind of

[Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

Dear list I have been working with QGIS 2.14 and now 2.18 for a while on Linux Mint 17. Suddenly, I cannot open shape files any more. When trying to load them I get the message: "Layer is not valid: The layer XX.shp is not a valid layer and can not be added to the map." In the log message