[Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 project fails to load in QGIS 1.7

[Ramon Andiñach]

Thanks Alister, I've got that working. So I've got a basic scripting confidence boost out of that, and another way to check out errors. 

Turns out Morten is closer to the mark. 

I went back through the XML (which looks ok to me) and suddenly wondered where the files where located. Turns out that the ones that aren't working are set using absolute paths, to a drive letter that has subsequently been taken up as a shared volume on a server 700km distant. 

So I guess they were working after all, just very, very slowly.

My thanks to both of you, otherwise I'd be rebuilding these projects. 

-ramon.

On 16/09/2011, at 12:09, "Alister Hood" <alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:

> As well as using debugview, you might want to check what messages are printed to stdout.
> There are probably other ways to do this on Windows, but what I do is modify the startup batch file for the msys rxvt so that it runs anything from the qgis batch file which is needed to be able to start qgis.  Then I can start qgis from rxvt and see the output ☺... like on a real operating system (except I still need debugview as well, and I don't know that that would be the case on a real operating system).
> 
> Alister
> 
>> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:54:44 +0800
>> From: Ramon Andi?ach <custard at westnet.com.au>
>> Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS 1.7 project fails to load in QGIS 1.7
>> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I have a peculiar problem where some of my project files that say they're 1.7
>> are suddenly refusing to open.
>> 
>> Debug view is silent on the matter.
>> 
>> This is on windows7 64-bit with a 1.7 install via osgeo
>> I'm getting a similar result with a nearby standalone 1.7 install.
>> 
>> Are there any likely causes?
>> 
>> -ramon.