<div dir="ltr">Hi Tim,<div><br></div><div>Yes. I concur that is has been around for a while. </div><div><br></div><div>I have been very busy with my studies and have yet to move to the earlier latest version.</div><div><br></div><div>Does come with an updated training manual or can the students be able to follow through this set of instructions in the latest version?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 September 2016 at 21:01, Tim Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@kartoza.com" target="_blank">tim@kartoza.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Marshall<div><br></div><div>A couple more thoughts to add to the conversation:</div><div><br></div><div>1) QGIS 1.8 is really old. I highly recommend that you use the latest Long Term Release (LTR) version of QGIS (currently 2.14.6) for your tuition. Among other things QGIS 2.14 has a feature that automatically saves a backup copy of your project and will try to restore it if you have a crash which corrupts your project.</div><div><br></div><div>2) I would encourage your students to use the Consolidate plugin: <a href="http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/qconsolidate/" target="_blank">http://plugins.qgis.<wbr>org/plugins/qconsolidate/</a> </div><div>This plugin (its marked as experimental so you need to allow experimental plugins in your plugin settings) will consolidate all of the resources (shape files, tiffs etc) referenced in your project into a single directory structure which can easily be zipped up and transported between computers (or backed up regularly).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class=""><div>On 15 Sep 2016, at 4:13 PM, Simphiwe mdluli <<a href="mailto:razoboss@gmail.com" target="_blank">razoboss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></span><div><div dir="ltr"><span class="">Does the problem looks something like this (handle Bad Layers)???</span><div><span class="">I can help if this is what you're ask.<div><br></div><div><br></div></span><div><div><span><image.png></span><br></div></div></div></div><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Marshall Mdoka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marshall.mdoka@monash.edu" target="_blank">marshall.mdoka@monash.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px"><div>Quick question - What should one do if there are unable to reopen their saved Quantum GIS project or the QGIS fails to read the saved project. A number of my students always encounter errors or the machine crashes.</div><div><br></div><div>Please advise.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><div><div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><strong>Dr Marshall L. Mdoka</strong><br>Lecturer and Head of Section<br>Geography & Environmental Science<br><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><strong>Email: </strong><a href="mailto:name.surname@monash.edu" target="_blank">marshall.mdoka@monash.e<wbr>du</a><br><strong>Office: </strong><a href="tel:%2B27%2011%20950%204105" value="+27119504105" target="_blank">+27 11 950 4105</a><br><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><img border="0" width="209" height="60" src="http://www.monash.ac.za/assets/images/email-signature/logo.png" alt="Monash South Africa" style="border:0px"><br>144 Peter Road, Ruimsig | <strong><a href="http://www.msa.ac.za/" target="_blank">www.msa.ac.za</a></strong><br><br></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/monashsouthafrica" style="text-decoration:none;border:0px" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.monash.ac.za/assets/images/email-signature/facebook.png" width="32" height="32" alt="Find us on Facebook" style="border:0px"></a> <a href="http://linkedin.com/edu/monash-south-africa-169003" style="text-decoration:none;border:0px" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.monash.ac.za/assets/images/email-signature/linkedin.png" width="32" height="32" alt="Find us on LinkedIn" style="border:0px"></a> <a href="http://instagram.com/monash_sa/" style="text-decoration:none;border:0px" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.monash.ac.za/assets/images/email-signature/instagram.png" width="32" height="32" alt="Find us on Instagram" style="border:0px"></a> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Monash_SA" style="text-decoration:none;border:0px" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.monash.ac.za/assets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