Layer creation failed, permission denied

[emiliojuarezhz]

I want to create a shade layer but when I summit it the app gave the advice "Layer creation failed:falied to create file .shp. permission denied"

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[gioman]

I want to create a shade layer but when I summit it the app gave the advice "Layer creation failed:falied to create file .shp. permission denied"

have you just entered the name to give the shapefile or you also choose a proper path, pointing to a folder where you have write permissions?

[Gustry]

@emiliojuarezhz Use the 3 dots next to it. This field is not a file name input, it's a file path that you must write. Using the 3 dots will highly solve your problem.

Note, this is a very common issue. We should flag this as an UX issue. Should we display in red the background of this field when the file is not writable with a tooltip? Should we enable this field with a double click?

[DelazJ]

@Gustry at least, there's already a tooltip. Maybe the label should be renamed: "file name" --> "File path"?

[ghost]

The new implementation of these three dots menus in creation of shapes is very frustrating . With no home directory in preferences, the data can be inserted in all fields and an attempt to save without using the menu to set directory fails loosing data this is now taking me twice or three times as long to enter shapes into QGIS . making it a backward step in QGIS design. Please rethink your development although this is nice to be able to set the path . When creating 30 or morre shapes this becomes tiresome and if i could go back to previous version i would that didn't have this! Feature added

[roya0045]

I'm pretty sure it always was that way as far as I can remember. Though defaulting to the project path should be easy.

[ghost]

@roya0045 , Alex , I opened a new feature request for this as it doesn't exist to create a home project directory #34454 but @gioman sated it was a duplicate to #32801 which you will find if you hover over it you will find its a bug report not a feature request.IT used to do this two days a go since this '...' was added to windows version it defaults to system32 directory which has no permission for QGIS. Now if you forget to press the '..' if the telephone rings or you go-into another program to get the reference number and forget you haven't pressed it it is incredibly frustrating creating duplicated work. And takes creating these shapes as mush as three times as long.

[roya0045]

The ... and defaulting to sys 32 is not new and should be fixed by replacing QDir::homePath() by QgsProject::instance()->homePath() at the right place in the code.

[alexbruy]

Duplicates #35651.