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<p>Hi Merryn,</p>
<p>What data formats are you using?</p>
<p>In case you are using shapefiles - can you check if all the necessary files are around? Note that a shapefile consists of several files:</p>
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<li>.shp --> geometry</li>
<li>.dbf --> attributes (perhaps this file is missing?)</li>
<li>.prj --> projection info</li>
<li>.shx --> index file</li>
<li>potentially more.</li>
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<p>All files would have the same name, but they would have different file extensions. You need at least those two.</p>
<p>The two most important ones are .shp .dbf</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2017-10-05 07:25, Merryn Delaney wrote:</p>
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<div>I've just got back home from maternity leave. The person who replaced me was not familiar with mapping softwares. I go back to open QGIS file and I discover that the main file and associated subfiles have been deleted. I restore them from the bins but when I open all the vectors are still there but attribute tables are empty!!! If i zoom to the file it doesn't show anything. Does anyone know what she could have done and how I can fix it? Is it possible that she saved as the vector with the same name and accidentally deleted all the data existing data??</div>
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