[Qgis-user] make a shapefile read-only

[Andreas Neumann]

Of course, the safe option to make something read-only is to use the
permissions in your file system. 

On 2020-06-12 15:57, Andreas Neumann wrote:

> Hi Aldo, 
> 
> Yes. In "Project" - "Properties" there is a "Read only" column where you can set individual layers as "read only". 
> 
> But this has only an effect in the respective project. Other projects could still edit the file. And of course the user can go there and disable the checkbox. Thus it is not a real "protection" - only against "accidental" edits, but not against "deliberate" edits. 
> 
> Greetings, 
> 
> Andreas 
> 
> On 2020-06-12 15:15, Aldo Piombino wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> I have a problem: I use in a projet a shapefile that I must consider as a read-only file.
>> 
>> But the risk of a mistake, making the file get accidentally changed, already exists, and for many reasons I don't want to do so
>> 
>> Is it possible in QGIS to make a shapefile impossible to modify?
>> 
>> thanks
>> 
>> Aldo
> 
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