Error in join

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Author Name: Dan Catchpole (Dan Catchpole)
Original Redmine Issue: 4106
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:vectors

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I was doing a tutorial and tried to join a CSV file and a Shapefile, and kept getting this error message:

Failure creating output shapefile
C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\joined.shp
creation of layer failed (OGR error:Failed to open Shapefile `C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\joined.shp'.

Everything I did followed the tutorial (http://www.projo.com/temp/tim/nicar/qgis_tutorial/#24), so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

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• CO-EST2008-01-37.csv (Dan Catchpole)
• tl_2009_37_county.shp (Dan Catchpole)

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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• category_id was configured as Vectors

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• fixed_version_id was configured as Version 1.7.4

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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Sample data incomplete/corrupted (only .shp file available). Not reproducible here with master under Windows and Linux

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• crashes_corrupts_data was configured as 0
• version was configured as master

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Author Name: Jeff Meyer (Jeff Meyer)

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Dan - I encountered a similar issue. Windows doesn't like non-Admins to save things to the C:\Program Files\ directory. Have you tried changing the path where you're saving the files? This solved the problem for me.

Alternate resolution: suggest feature to be able to set a default "working folder" path.

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Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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• fixed_version_id was changed from Version 1.7.4 to Version 1.8.0

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Author Name: Alexander Bruy (@alexbruy)

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• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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closing for lack of feedback. Reopen if necessary.

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• resolution was changed from to worksforme
• status_id was changed from Feedback to Closed