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

[Alexandre Neto]

Also, confirm that you have the complete set of files of shapefile.

You must have (at least) a .SHP, a .SHX and a .DBF with the same name.

Best regards,

Alexandre Neto


On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Frank Sokolic <sokolic at worldonline.co.za>wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> Are you using the "Add Vector Layer" command to open the shapefiles? If
> not, go to the "Layer" menu and select the "Add Vector Layer" command. You
> can then choose "Browse" to look for the shapefile you want to load.
>
> Regards, Frank.
>
>
> On 06/01/2014 06:57, Matt_Klick wrote:
>
>> No luck on this yet, but thank you for your suggestion. On another
>> computer, I still cannot upload shp files - instead changing them to
>> nursoft (??) files. In any event, I cannot yet open a shp file using QGIS.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Akinyemi Bojerenu [via OSGeo.org]
>> <[hidden email] </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096495&i=0>> wrote:
>>
>>     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" <[hidden email]
>>     <http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=5096323&i=0>> 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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