[Qgis-user] CSV Export broken in QGIS 1.8.0 for (at least) Debian Wheezy

[Andre Joost]

Hi,

I get the same error if I exort a line geometry with over 3000 vertices 
to CSV, and check "Add to canvas". Unchecking it gives no error message, 
but the CSV file is empty.

Greetings,
André Joost

Am 03.06.2013 21:34, schrieb Micha Silver:
> On 06/03/2013 08:23 PM, Anonymous Coward wrote:
>>  I checked the data and path and they match the criteria you describe.  I also
>>  downgraded from 1.8 to 1.7.5 and still got the same error.
>>  Any place I can get more details of the error?
>>  Thanks
>>
>>
>
> How big is the data file? What does it contain? Maybe try with some very simple
> data. Create a new point shapefile, with just 2 or 3 columns, and try the "Save
> As..." to CSV. If that works, then perhaps it's something in your data.
>
>
>>  On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Micha Silver<micha at arava.co.il
>>  <mailto:micha at arava.co.il>>  wrote:
>>
>>      On 06/01/2013 02:38 AM, Anonymous Coward wrote:
>>>
>>>      Each time I try to "Save as.." a vector layer to a CSV file I get an
>>>      (uninformative) error:
>>>
>>>
>>>      Export to vector file failed.
>>>
>>>      Error: creation of data source failed (OGR error:)
>>>
>>>
>>
>>      Works here, on Wheezy, QGIS 1.8. Check your column names for>10
>>      characters, non-ascii characters, etc. Also, be sure that there are no
>>      spaces or non-ascii characters in the whole path to the shapefile.
>>
>>
>>      Regards,
>>
>>      Micha
>>
>>
>>>      This worked fine in QGIS 1.7
>>>
>>>
>>>      Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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