[Qgis-user] Shapefile Rename

[Ujaval Gandhi]

A 'shapefile' is a collection of at least different files with extension
.shp, .shx, .dbf and .prj. So if you rename one of them it doesn't work.
You must rename all the sidecar files. Better yet, open original shapefile
in QGIS, right-click, Export , Save Features As and save it with the new
name.
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 7:46 PM krishna Ayyala <ayyalakrishna at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a shapefile with the name "Polygon". I can see this shapefile in
> the browser panel. In the browser panel, I right click on "Polygon" and
> Properties. I changed the name to "Polygon_rename".
>
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> After changing the name, I  have added to the layers window. Then I am
> getting the following error message. How to rename a shapefile?
>
> [image: image.png]
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