rename shapefiles in browser

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Author Name: salvatore fiandaca (salvatore fiandaca)
Original Redmine Issue: 15791

Redmine category:unknown

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added ability to rename shapefiles to QGIS browser

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Related issue(s): #24012 (relates)
Redmine related issue(s): 16099

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Author Name: Caio Hamamura (Caio Hamamura)

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QGIS Browser is almost useless without this feature, at least for me, because whenether I map a WMS/PostGIS/etc I usually want to work on that layers too using QGIS Desktop, but I always need to organize data, rename and move stuff around, certifying myself I didn't forget any of the shapefile's files (shx, dbf, ...).

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• subject was changed from QGIS browser to rename shapefiles in browser

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• easy_fix was configured as 0

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Author Name: Jürgen Fischer (@jef-n)

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• category_id was configured as Unknown

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Author Name: Friede Goral (Friede Goral)

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I agree, renaming and copying shapefiles in the QGIS browser (as in Esri ArcCatalog) would be a great improvement (over renaming all shapefile-files manually...).

[roya0045]

Pretty sure this can be done.

[suricactus]

@roya0045 I have sent you a message on gitter.

I can try to fix this, renaming files will be useful for sure.

[roya0045]

@suricactus if you want to do this you can, I just thought this was a thing that could be done already.

To do this one would have to copy the files, change their name and then change the source of all associated vectors. Otherwise you will hit a system lock if the layer is in use. This is pretty much the same as 'save as' at this point. :/

[gioman]

I can try to fix this, renaming files will be useful for sure.

Take into account that SHP can have several extra files, like indexes, qpj, etc. Also there is the case of raster external overviews, raster world files, etc. There is also the case of datasources that are directories and not files (i.e. file geodatabases).

[alexbruy]

Duplicates #14611.