<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">I checked the data and path and they match the criteria you describe. I also downgraded from 1.8 to 1.7.5 and still got the same error.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
Any place I can get more details of the error?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Micha Silver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:micha@arava.co.il" target="_blank">micha@arava.co.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Each time I try to "Save as.." a vector layer to a
CSV file I get an (uninformative) error:</div>
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</div><p>Works here, on Wheezy, QGIS 1.8. Check your column names for
>10 characters, non-ascii characters, etc. Also, be sure that
there are no spaces or non-ascii characters in the whole path to
the shapefile.<br>
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<p style="margin:0px">This worked fine in QGIS 1.7</p>
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