Hi all. Apparently the zipped sample data[0] are missing from: http://docs.qgis.org/2.8/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/getting_started.html#sample-data [0]http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/data/qgis_sample_data.zip All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html