[Qgis-user] export to new projection not working

[Craig Leat]

M.E.Dodd wrote:
> Am I doing something silly here, I have a file open in qgis 1.6 on windows pc then go to vector>data management>export to new projection.  Then choose the projection and filename and press ok but nothing happens.
>
> The vector layer open in qgis comes originally from mapinfo (as .tab), it is in osgb 1936, and I am trying to save as a shapefile in WGS 84 or one of the other CRS’s.
>
> I have used this tool once or twice and its worked but normally it does not work.  So far I have not found which types of files it works with and which ones fail.

Creation of the shapefile will fail if the attribute columns are not
unique. dbf has a ten character limit for column names and so unique
fields in the tab file may no longer be unique in a dbf after
truncation.

Regards,

Craig