<div dir="ltr">Reginald;<div>I am on 2.14.5 (thought I had also installed 2.16.x but I guess I skipped it). The first thing I noticed is when opening the file my memory usage doubled and qgis-ltr-bin.exe moved right to the top of the processes list. I didn't get any hang-ups but I feel I may have gotten close. Did you try using the clip function without adding the layers to the project? My machine did the clip faster and the result didn't not come in sluggish and I clipped it by about 1/3.</div><div>Tyler</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Reginald Carlier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Reginald.Carlier@ingelmunster.be" target="_blank">Reginald.Carlier@ingelmunster.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I downloaded belgium-latest.shp.zip<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
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<p style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;COLOR:#5c676d">Reginald Carlier<br></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;COLOR:#5c676d">Deskundige GIS</span></p>
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<p style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial"><span style="FONT-SIZE:9pt;FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma;COLOR:#5c676d"><br>Gemeente Ingelmunster, 
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<b>Verzonden:</b> dinsdag 30 augustus 2016 15:06<br>
<b>Aan:</b> Reginald Carlier<br>
<b>CC:</b> <a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a></span></p><div><div class="h5"><br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] qgis browser hangs while opening big shapefile<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p><div><div class="h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Reginald;<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are 2 download options, I would like to test the one you downloaded.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Which one did you download, latest of latest free?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Reginald Carlier <<a href="mailto:Reginald.Carlier@ingelmunster.be" target="_blank">Reginald.Carlier@<wbr>ingelmunster.be</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi Tyler,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The shape can be downloaded from this link:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><a href="http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/belgium.html" target="_blank">http://download.geofabrik.de/<wbr>europe/belgium.html</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I used Belgium-latest.shp</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Greetings,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#5c676d">Reginald Carlier<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#5c676d">Deskundige GIS</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Van:</span></b><span lang="NL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Tyler Veinot
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<b>Verzonden:</b> dinsdag 30 augustus 2016 13:53<br>
<b>Aan:</b> Reginald Carlier<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [Qgis-user] qgis browser hangs while opening big shapefile</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Reginald;<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you send the shape?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:40 AM, Reginald Carlier <<a href="mailto:Reginald.Carlier@ingelmunster.be" target="_blank">Reginald.Carlier@<wbr>ingelmunster.be</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I downloaded the latest shapefile of OSM for Belgium.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">When I open QGIS browser and point to the buildings.shp (size : 325959kB) the application hangs, so I can’t change the
 CRM.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I also tried clipping the buildings.shp with a polygon shape of a town but that resulted in the same unresponsive behavior.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I’m using QGIS 2.16.1.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#5c676d">Reginald Carlier<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#5c676d">Deskundige GIS</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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