Answer by SpatialSuccess for How to avoid creating corrupt Shapefiles during...
Reappearance of deleted features and/or odd behaviour of shapefiles from which features have been deleted in QGIS is a known bug, see this bug report 11007 and this related question - Deleted polygons...
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This happened to me in QGIS. I managed to resolve the issue simply by deleting '_packed' from the file name, as someone has suggested in the comments section above.
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ExplanationOGR (part of GDAL) is the library used by QGIS to access shapefiles. When OGR deletes features it does not delete them immediately, but just marks the features as deleted. Once in a while, a...
View ArticleAnswer by AndreJ for How to avoid creating corrupt Shapefiles during Editing?
Maybe this is another issue of a broken .shx index file. The geometry type should be stored in .shp and .shx header. If they don't match, the software will generate an error.It looks like QGIS is not...
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How to avoid creating corrupt Shapefiles during Editing?
I have one of my GIS technicians digitizing some lines in QGIS in shapefile format. I don't know how he did it (and neither does he), but somehow the shapefile became corrupt. It was creating random...
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