[Gdal-dev] 100 byte shx files

[Frank Warmerdam]

Sorokine, Alexandre wrote:
> All,
>  
> I was converting the projection of shapefiles from the same directoy 
> using the command:
>  
> ogr2ogr -t_srs proj.wkt . /media/shapefiles/
>  
> What I found is that all resulting shape files were corrupted having shx 
> file just 100 bytes long (basically this is a header with no content).  
> Convereting shapefiles one by one works fine.  Is it a bug or am I doing 
> something wrong?  I am using gdal gdal-1.3.2.

Alex,

I'm not sure why this is happening.  I would encourage you to try it also
with a recent version of ogr2ogr - perhaps from a recent FWTools build.  If
the problem still occures then you could submit a bug report with all the
details needed to reproduce it.

Best regards,
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