[Qgis-user] Automatically ordering layers & best practice for transferring data

[RMG]

Hi Nicolas,

Many thanks. Load Them All looks promising.

Best regards,

Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
Comoé Monkey Project <https://www.facebook.com/ComoeMonkeyProject/>
Guenon Conservation Community
<http://facebook.com/GuenonConservationCommunity/>




On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:23 PM Nicolas Cadieux <
nicolas.cadieux at archeotec.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> See below
> On 2020-06-16 12:39 p.m., RMG wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a lot of layers that are often similar in names and structures
> (e.g., 2018-01-20_daily-path_length, 2018-01-21_daily-path_length,
> 2018-01-22_daily-path_length ....), but not always. Is there a way to
> automatically order the layers by alphabetical order, date, etc.? I am not
> talking about grouping or sub-grouping. I am looking for a function that
> would allow us to sort them by certain specifics (e.g., order by
> modification date, order by rasters then vectors).
>
> There was an experimental  sort layer plugin but I can't find it from QGIS
> 3x. Only on the web site.  Maybe it has not been ported to qgis 3x.
> Anybody???  I believe the "Load them all" plugin could help also.
>
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/SortLayers/
>
> Some code found here could help.
>
>
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/318834/sort-layers-in-table-of-contents-in-qgis-3
>
> Second question. What is the best practice for transferring data from one
> external hard drive to another? A 2TB drive is full with a lot of Landsat
> images and now I would like to transfer the data to a 4TB one. How do I
> make sure that I have a smooth workflow without looking for layers within
> each project?
>
> Regards,
>
> Personally, I used Syncbacks free or SE.
> https://www.2brightsparks.com/welcome/syncback-syncbackse-syncbackpro.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw26H3BRB2EiwAy32zhVgBM3Bb_uJ-H69UvKghHCBr7yB8rDZ3evsXuY1ASKJYsv5O3HT0yxoC5_YQAvD_BwE
>
> You could always just copy and paste from one drive to the other.  This
> can work if you are not accessing the files from the drives at the same
> time.  Never *cut* and paste. That can be messy if things go wrong.  If
> you keep the same file structure, QGIS projects should work on the second
> drive. Your hard drive may also have a free software to do the job.  I
> would keep the first drive as a backup.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> Reiko Matsuda Goodwin
> Comoé Monkey Project <https://www.facebook.com/ComoeMonkeyProject/>
> Guenon Conservation Community
> <http://facebook.com/GuenonConservationCommunity/>
>
>
>
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