[OSGeo Africa] Unable to read or open previously saved QGIS projects

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Marshall

A couple more thoughts to add to the conversation:

1) QGIS 1.8 is really old. I highly recommend that you use the latest Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS (currently 2.14.6) for your tuition. Among other things QGIS 2.14 has a feature that automatically saves a backup copy of your project and will try to restore it if you have a crash which corrupts your project.

2) I would encourage your students to use the Consolidate plugin: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qconsolidate/
This plugin (its marked as experimental so you need to allow experimental plugins in your plugin settings) will consolidate all of the resources (shape files, tiffs etc) referenced in your project into a single directory structure which can easily be zipped up and transported between computers (or backed up regularly).

Regards

Tim



> On 15 Sep 2016, at 4:13 PM, Simphiwe mdluli <razoboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Does the problem looks something like this (handle Bad Layers)???
> I can help if this is what you're ask.
> 
> 
> <image.png>
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> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Marshall Mdoka <marshall.mdoka at monash.edu <mailto:marshall.mdoka at monash.edu>> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Quick question - What should one do if there are unable to reopen their saved Quantum GIS project or the QGIS fails to read the saved project. A number of my students always encounter errors or the machine crashes.
> 
> Please advise.
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