[Qgis-user] Delimited Text Plug-in claiming text file not valid

[Alister Hood]

Hi guys,

> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:05:18 +0100
> From: Goyo <goyodiaz at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Delimited Text Plug-in claiming text file not
> 	valid
> To: custard <custard at westnet.com.au>
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
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> 
> 2011/2/15 Goyo <goyodiaz at gmail.com>:
> > 2011/2/15 custard <custard at westnet.com.au>:
> > [...]
> >> M:/Data/WesternAustralia/SH51-
>
09/Anthill/MMAnthill/Exports/20110215MKOAHCollars.csv?delimiter=%5B,%5D
> &delimiterType=regexp&xField=East_LG&yField=North_LG
> >> is not a valid layer and can not be added to the map
> >
> > I'm getting error messages like this using trunk in windows from
some
> > weeks ago. For me it seems to be related to the file path. I can
> > import a text file from my desktop but the same file fails when
> > imported from a complicated UNC path. I still didn't have time to
> test
> > more paths to isolate the issue and open a ticket, maybe tomorrow (I
> > use Windows only at work and have been very busy these days).
> >
> > Goyo
> 
> BTW, the update that brought this problem included an update to GDAL
> 1.8 if I recall correctly. I don't know if the plugin uses GDAL/OGR at
> all but this called my attention.

It is apparently fixed now :)

https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3490