[Qgis-user] QGIS Attribute Table Not Displaying Data

[Giuseppe Sucameli]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Lee Hachadoorian
<Lee.Hachadoorian+L at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, I did a complete uninstall, using purge, then deleted the empty
> $HOME/.qgis anyway. The setting persisted through this.

in my Ubuntu (and AFAIK other Linux distros as well)
configuration files goes under $HOME/.config/

in Windows they are stored in the Windows Registry.

Regards.


> Set "Show selected features"
> sudo apt-get remove --purge qgis
> sudo apt-get autoremove #removes all the dependencies
> rm ~/.qgis
> sudo apt-get install qgis
>
> I confirm that the configuration folder does not exist. The
> configuration folder gets recreated at first launch of QGIS. I look at
> the Options, and Attribute table behavior is still set to "Show
> selected features".
>
> Second, there is one (too me) weird thing about the behavior of "Show
> selected features". When set, the attribute table can only display
> from the universe of features *selected when the attribute table is
> first opened*. If you then change the selection (using the select tool
> or using Invert Selection) the selected features will be highlighted
> on the map, but will not be updated in the attribute table. Invert
> selection immediately yields an empty feature table because the
> inverted selection obviously includes only features that were not
> selected when the attribute table was opened. I don't know if this is
> intended behavior, but it is very different from the "Show selected
> only" checkbox at the bottom of the attribute table panel. When that
> checkbox is on, the attribute table displays the selection as a subset
> of the entire dataset. If a subset of records appear in the table
> because of the "Show selected features" setting, and then you check
> "Show selected only", selected records will appear in the attribute
> table only if they were in the original selection when the attribute
> table was opened.
>
> Thanks for the assistance.
> --Lee
>
> --
> Lee Hachadoorian
> Asst Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College
> http://freecity.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
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Giuseppe Sucameli - Faunalia