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    After a few selections, you may have to close and reopen qgis to
    purge the memory as well. Importing a csv is memory intensive so
    another approach is to try saving as a spatial database (SQLite) or
    even a shapefile.  Once written, you can load the spatial file and
    you should have lots of memory to keep selecting points. <br>
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    Kirk<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/9/2018 4:58 PM, Ramon Andinach
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      I’m not sure what the problem is, but if I were doing that
      repeatedly, I’d probably use Layer -> Save As, tick the Save
      Only Selected Features box and save it to CSV.  Then muck about
      with excel later.
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      <div class="">This way ought to be a bit lighter on the memory. </div>
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      <div class="">Ramon.</div>
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            <div class="">On 10 Jan 2018, at 04:25, Jeroen Hovens <<a
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                <div class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US">Hi,</span></div>
                <div class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US"> </span></div>
                <div class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US">Using qgis
                    2.14.18 I have been working today with a large csv
                    file (7.5 mln objects). I just need selections of
                    this database which I can then modify in excel. So I
                    opened the attribute table and made a selection
                    based on a specific value for an attribute, and
                    copied that selection (about 30.000 objects) via the
                    clipboard (ctrl-c) to a new Microsoft Excel file,
                    then saved the excel file and repeated the process
                    for another selection. This worked perfect for some
                    time. However, some selections won’t copy: when I
                    press the copy button the programs turn to ‘not
                    responding’ and won’t snap out of it anymore.
                     Selection size when this happens is about the same
                    (about 20k to 35k objects).</span></div>
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                <div class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US">What could be
                    the problem? Could the data be corrupted? How can I
                    check what is wrong?</span></div>
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                <div class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US">Thank you</span></div>
                <div class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US">Gr.</span></div>
                <div class=""><span class="" lang="EN-US">Jeroen<span
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