[QGIS-Developer] Editing CSV files?

[Nick Bearman]

Thanks for your question Mike.

I hope Alexander's answer helped.

To develop this slightly further, to get consistent options, best 
practice would be to save your CSV file to some other format within QGIS 
- perhaps as a table without geometry in a geopackage - and then you 
will be able to edit it to your heart's content.

Whether this is suitable depends on your wider workflow - and why you 
are bringing in a CSV file, which you don't specify.

Good luck!

Best wishes,
Nick.

On 17/03/2026 14:45, Alexander Bruy via QGIS-Developer wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I think you are loading CSV via Data Source Manager using the
> delimited text data provider, while when you drag-and-drop it the OGR
> provider is used. These providers have different capabilities,
> so this is a normal situation.
>
> вт, 17 бер. 2026 р. о 14:39 Elstermann, Mike via QGIS-Developer
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> пише:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> when I load a CSV file (without geometry) via the ‘Data Source Manager’ in QGIS 3 and QGIS 4, I cannot edit it in the attribute table. However, if I drag the CSV file into the project, the attribute table can be edited just as easily as with other datasets.
>>
>> Is this normal? If so, why? Or can this perhaps be adjusted so that the CSV file is always editable?
>>
>> Thanks, mikeE.
>>
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