[Qgis-user] User error or bug? (Vector Symetric Difference)

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 12:40 -0500, Adam Hirsch wrote:
> Hey, folks -- I'm a fairly new QGIS user trying to run the amusingly
> misspelled "Symetric Difference" vector tool against two vector
> layers.  Unfortunately, whenever I do, the CPU spikes to 100% and QGIS
> seizes up, producing no output.  Same problem with "Union," though
> other Vector tools seem to work okay.
> 
> 
> I'm new to QGIS, so I wanted to check and see whether I was missing
> something obvious before filing a bug on it.
>  http://hub.qgis.org/issues/5626 sounds somewhat similar, but I'm
> running on local files without a PostGIS back, so it might not be the
> same.


what version of QGIS are you using?

in the last days there have been a few fixes in those vector tools, if
you can give a try to qgis development version it would be great.

cheers

-- Giovanni --