[GRASS-dev] BIG QGIS problem

[Paulo van Breugel]

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>
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>>  I’ve been using QGIS to do basic data display for research data. It has
>> trashed the attribute tables on the last day.
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>>  I’m trying to recover the data with GRASS—where I want to analyze it
>> anyway. But when I try to import a non-trashed file, I exported to a shape
>> file from QGIS, I get an error of ‘inconsistent number of columns’.
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>>  Does anyone have any suggestion about how to fix this? I’m pretty
>> desperate right now.
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> Have you  looked what's in the .dbf file? For example with LibreOffice,
> but you have to specify right encoding (should be ISO8859-1). The message
> just says there is at least one row with different number of columns
> (values).
>

I have had similar problems. Some rows were detected to have different
number of columns, which as I remember well was cause by some strange
characters or carriage return in those rows.



> Best,
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> Anna
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