<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="margin: 0px;">Hi. I've been trying unsuccessfully to create my own layers in QGIS. I'm a new user and I just can't figure it out. (I know how it's <b><i>SUPPOSED</i></b> to work...) I don't know if this is a question of user permissions where whatever database it's trying to open lives (even though it's all on my hard drive). Ten years ago I could do this in my sleep with ArcMap... I must be forgetting something very basic here...</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">(And this begs the question, "What database is it trying to open? Can't I even create a new database and write to that one?")</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">All I've done is open a project that I created by loading a shapefile, and add a field to one of the shapefile tables. I need to be ale to filter the layer in order to show only certain values in that field. I need to be able to save that information in the project file. I can't "Create a Layer." I can't "Export to a layer." I can't "Clip a layer." The error messages all say something like this one:</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">"Export to vector file failed.</div>
<div style="margin: 0px;">Error: Creation of data source failed (OGR error: sqlite3_open(NC GeoRegions.gpkg) failed: <b>unable to open database file</b>)"</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">No one has responded to my pleas for help, although every other request generates responses.</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Could someone please weigh in? You were all newbies once too...</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">Thanks so much. Have a great day : )</div><div style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px;">John A,</div></div></div></body></html>