[Qgis-user] Newbie - QGIS won't recongize shp files, comp turns shp files into pdfs

[Akinyemi Emmanuel]

Hi,
Please extract the contents of the zip file first into a destination folder
of choice.
When opening a shapefile, navigate to your folder to select the
shapefile(s).
Hope this helps..
Yemi
On Jan 4, 2014 9:13 AM, "Matt_Klick" <matthew.klick at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm very new to any GIS type platforms, so please forgive the ignorance on
> display here (and I did search for answers to this elsewhere). I've
> downloaded QGIS 2.0.1. I separately downloaded Tunisia administrative data
> from DIVA-GIS. When I open QGIS, it does not find the .zip file, nor any of
> the shp files. In my efforts to correct, I managed to convert shp files
> into
> pdfs. Even though I've re-installed QGIS, and deleted and re-downloaded
> Tunisia files, shp files are once again pdfs, and QGIS cannot "see" any shp
> files. Any advice, or thoughts on what I'm doing wrong, greatly
> appreciated.
> -MK
>
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