[Qgis-user] Shapefiles

Andreas Neumann a.neumann at carto.net
Thu Apr 8 05:13:55 PDT 2021


Hi Paddy,

The .shp file contains the geometries. If your data contains no 
geometries, then you might be fine with the .dbf file that contains the 
no-geometry part of your data (attribute columns). No - it is not 
possible to recreate the .shp file if it is missing.

Andreas

On 2021-04-08 14:07, Pat Brown wrote:

> Hi,
> So, just to confirm what I already suspect? If you have the .shx and 
> .dbf files but the .shp file is missing then you might as well get rid 
> of them? It is not possible to recreate the .shp file?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paddy
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