[Qgis-user] Problem with QGIS 2.14.1 and MapInfo 12.0.3 coexistence and sharing the same data

[Bo Victor Thomsen]

Claus -

(Not tested, just a suggestion) Try to make all the files used for a 
MapInfo layer (.tab, .id, .dat. map..) read-only for the QGIS users.

QGIS 2.14 is using a new version of GDAL/OGR (2.0) to read and write tab 
files. This new version of GDAL/OGR is is probably locking the MapInfo 
files with a file lock because it prepares the files for update 
operations. Updates was not possible for earlier versions of GDAL/OGR.

If you set the read-only attribute on the MapInfo files, QGIS (aka the 
GDAL/OGR subsystem) might not generate the file lock that makes it 
impossible for MapInfo to read the files.

Regards

Bo Victor Thomsen
Municipality of Frederikssund, Denmark


Den 12-04-2016 kl. 12:57 skrev Claus Sørensen:
> with QGIS and MapInfo coexistence.
> I have no problems opening the same MapInfo tab file (native mapinfo 
> 7.8 format) from 2 pc's ru