[Qgis-user] suddenly unable to open shape files

2016-11-25 Thread Mira Kattwinkel
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 pa

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

2016-11-25 Thread Mira Kattwinkel
it's a lone file. Nicolas Le 25 nov. 2016 à 11:36, Mira Kattwinkel [via OSGeo.org <http://OSGeo.org>] <[hidden email] > a écrit : 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 t

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

2016-11-28 Thread Mira Kattwinkel
ster and vector files). Could it be that this messed up something internally that it even affected shape files outside of this folder? Cheers, Mira On 25/11/16 18:17, Nicolas Cadieux wrote: Zip me the file if it's not confidential. I can test it. Le 25 nov. 2016 à 12:07, Mira Kattwinkel [

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

2016-11-28 Thread Mira Kattwinkel
s one harddisk or partition was full? That could explain such a behaviour. Andreas On 2016-11-28 10:10, Mira Kattwinkel wrote: 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