[Qgis-user] Editing attribute table

[Andrea Giudiceandrea]

Pat Brown wrote
> As a follow-on to my earlier query, after much digging if found some files
> in this shapefile folder that might answer my question. There are three
> files with exactly the same data as the attribute table. One is a csv
> file,
> one an xls file and one an mdb file. I figured that this is the derived
> data that the attribute table is reading from. How can I tell which one it
> is?

Hi Pat,
if your layer is an ESRI Shapefile, then the alphanumeric attributes of each
feature are stored in the .dbf file of that Shapefile.

The "derived" values you see using the Identify Features tool are derived
from the geometry associated to each feature.

Beat reagards.

Andrea



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