[Qgis-user] How to merge layers without a work-around?

[damien stephens]

I would copy one and paste as a new layer eg shapefile, then select the
next set of data and page to my new shape file.
Not scratch layers, but it works.
Cheers

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, 04:33 Tobias Wendorff <tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de>
wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> Is there any way to merge two scratch layers? Even big ones...
> I've tried the one in SAGA, in MMQGIS and the native QGIS one.
>
> SAGA's executable crashed after 5 minutes, but QGIS was alive.
> MMQGIS also throw out an error after some minutes of processing.
>
> And the native one tells me:
> "global name 'dataobjects' is not defined See log for more details"
> Actually, this sems to be a bug in "Merge.py":
> "layer = dataobjects.getObjectFromUri(layerSource)"
>
> I've ended up selection all elements and copy & paste them to a
> new layer. But there's also an unexpected event: even when you've
> selected all the elements in two layers, you can copy the layer,
> which is currently selected in the layers panel. Is this a bug?
>
> How do you merge layers? Sure, there's ogr2ogr - but I want
> to use QGIS. Of course, I'm merging layers with the same
> geometry only (f.e. points).
>
> Best regards,
> Tobias
>
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