Geographic Information Systems Asked on December 23, 2020
I’m having problems creating new shapefiles – in QGIS 2.14.20 any new fields I create and any associated data are not saved. I’ve now got the same problem in QGIS 3.0, but there I get a message saying layer creation failed. There is an error message but it just seems to say ‘warning :’ But under OGR I get:
2018-05-10T10:44:30 WARNING Creation of OGR data source test.shp failed: Failed to create file test.shp: Permission denied
I am running on an iMac High Sierra 10.13.4. I also sometimes can’t save projects. I am the only user of this machine and have admin privileges, and am trying to save the shapefiles and projects locally.
Before trying to save the file, click on the folder button at the right of the filename entery box and select a writeable folder for the save.
Answered by Bill C on December 23, 2020
I got some professional help in the end to fix this. It seemed to be a problem with pathways because the QGIS3 install for mac had overwritten some settings. A 'deep clean' uninstall and fresh install and I am almost up and running again.
Answered by Cameron on December 23, 2020
Just like said above, when entering the name of the Shapefile, click on the button (...) on the right hand side, and choose the location folder to save.
I was having the same issue, as per default it was saving to a random folder, and when I chose the right folder on the server it worked.
Answered by Daniela S on December 23, 2020
I clicked the ... button next to "File name field" and selected a writable directory for the shapefile, the layer got created.
Answered by Laxmi on December 23, 2020
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