[Qgis-user] Loss of data

[chris hermansen]

Pedro and list,

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020, 08:11 Pedro Machado Monteiro <
pedromachadomonteiro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Vladut:
>
> If you succeed in recovering the previous *dbf* file, you can join it
> again to the recent damaged shapefile, by the common field of area,
> provided your previous field SUP (area) was actually the area of the
> geometry elements.
>
>
>

Not necessarily a good idea. There could be many elements with the same
area.

If it's the previous DBF why is it necessary to "join" anything - the
record IDs in the shape data and DBF should still connect.

Chris
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