[Qgis-user] Possible bug QGIS 2.10

[Lester Anderson]

Found v2.12.3 and that showed the same behaviour.

Before I go ahead and get the latest version, can we confirm that the
bug is absent in the new versions?

Also can I confirm that this was a recognised bug.

Thanks
Lester

On 12 July 2017 at 09:21, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2.10.. is it outdated? do you know that LTR is 2.14 and current
> version is 2.18.10?
> Luigi Pirelli
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> On 12 July 2017 at 10:13, Lester Anderson <arctica1963 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am currently working with QGIS 2.10 and have just noticed a bug when
>> creating and editing shapefiles. I know it's not the latest, but works
>> fine for most jobs.
>>
>> If I make a shapefile, polygons or lines, it all looks fine in QGIS if
>> I later go back and delete some objects in the file, but if I check in
>> ArcMap then all the objects are still there. If QGIS shows 2 polygons
>> ArcMap will show all, even those that were deleted.
>>
>> The only workaround I can see is to copy the polygons/lines into a new
>> shapefile. It seems like the shapefile is not updating properly in the
>> background even if it shows the correct elements in QGIS.
>>
>> It seems if you edit an existing shapefile in QGIS (2.10) that it
>> still retains information on the objects that were deleted, although
>> the attribute table does not show this. In ArcMap the attribute table
>> shows all including deleted objects.
>>
>> Any ideas? Has this been corrected in later versions?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lester
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