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<p>Hi Dave,</p>
<p>Concerning Option B.</p>
<p>Use the "Add Shapefile" menu, not "New Shapefile" menu.</p>
<p>The former one adds an existing shapefile to your QGIS project.
The later one creates a new empty file (and hence asks you if you
want to overwrite the existing one with data).</p>
<p>Best regards</p>
<p>Matthias</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/24/20 3:27 AM, Dave Kimble wrote:<br>
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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-unicode">With a clean install of
Ubuntu-20.04, I downloaded qgis from the Ubuntu repository. <br>
<br>
This is qgis-3.10.4-A . During the installation I was asked if
I wanted my old settings preserved, I said No. <br>
<br>
I get different results depending on how I proceed. <br>
<br>
A. If I open the application and choose the blank project, add
New Shapefile Layer and navigate to "DCDB.shp" I get "The layer
already exists, overwrite ?" (which seems wrong for a blank
project), answer Cancel. The input file DCDB.shp is written to a
file size of 100 bytes from 9.8 MB. This is exactly the same as
the problem I was having before, which I eventually gave up on.
<br>
<br>
B. If I don't open qgis, but simply double-click on "DCDB.shp",
it opens qgis and loads the layer, which renders correctly. I
can change the polygons' colours based on the TENURE field. I
can save the project and close, but on reopening qgis, my
project is not presented. If I navigate to the newly created
./gis/Lot11.qgz it opens as a blank project with no layers. <br>
<br>
At qgis.org I see that you released qgis-3.12 on 17 April 2020,
less than a week before Ubuntu-20.04 was due to be released. <br>
<br>
At <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/alldownloads.html#debian-ubuntu</a>
, I cannot understand what you mean by "To have newer versions,
you have to add alternative software repositories, by adding one
of the deb-lines below to your /etc/apt/sources.list file."
There are no deb lines below. There are 15 URLs. <br>
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Please help. <br>
<br>
Dave <br>
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