qgis saves .SHP file as .shp

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Author Name: barryrowlingson - (barryrowlingson -)
Original Redmine Issue: 2292

Redmine category:data_provider
Assignee: nobody -

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Load polygonal shapefile FOO.SHP (with FOO.DBF, FOO.SHX etc). Enable editing. Select two features and use Merge Selected Features. Disable editing and save changes. Qgis gives you FOO.shp, FOO.shx and FOO.dbf alongside your original files.

Just moving nodes around doesn't do this, but deleting a feature does, so I suspect it's whenever the structure changes and the whole shapefile needs rewriting....

Probably a Unixy case-sensitive file system problem only.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Looks like OGR's REPACK command causes that.

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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Replying to [comment:3 jef]:

Looks like OGR's REPACK command causes that.

See also [[GDAL #13353]]

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Author Name: Even Rouault (@rouault)

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Fixed in OGR now

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Author Name: Médéric RIBREUX (Médéric RIBREUX)

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As it seems to be fixed in OGR (gdal 1.6.4), I guess that this bug can be marked as FIX cause it is not QGis related...

It will be fixed when you will get a new version of GDAL in your distribution !

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• resolution was configured as fixed
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed