[gdal-dev] OGR error

[nicholas.g.lawrence at mainroads.qld.gov.au]

> > I am using ogr2ogr to append several shapefiles into one shapefile.
> >
> > The command
> >
> > ogr2ogr -update -append C:\DATA\neville\fire.shp
> > C:\DATA\neville\bundaberg.shp -nln fire
> >
> > which is repeated many times in a batch file to append more and more
> > shapefiles to
> > the destination file.
> >
> > After about a dozen successful appends, I get this error message
> >
> > ERROR 1: Error in psSHP->sHooks.FSeek() or fwrite() writing object to
.shp
> > file.
> >
> > which is repeated a 1000 times until ogr2ogr decides to stop giving
> > warnings.

> Nick,

> It basically means that writes to the .shp file are failing.  The most
> likely reason is that your disk is full or the .shp file grew to be
> larger than 2GB/4GB.  Are either of those possible?  If not, we would
> need to pursue normal bug reporting approaches.

I have 60 GB free of hard disc space.

The shapefile I was creating was just over 2 GB when it crashed.
The total size of the shapefiles I am trying to append is about
2.7 GB.

Regards,
nick


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