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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Boaz,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>When the layers didn’t appear when opening in the old version of QGIS, did you get any error message? Generally if a layer in a project cannot be found you get the opportunity to find it and reinstate it in the projects (handle bad layers).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Maybe in the newer version of QGIS you have ‘relative file paths’ set versus ‘full file path’ – This is under PROJECT settings – Project, Settings, General tab, Save Paths<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=299 height=29 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D514BD.FAFE6C50"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There are now a multitude of reasons why you may not be able to fully open a 3.4 project in 2.18, especially when it comes to how layers are styled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers - Phil<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Boaz Bar Ilan<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 27 May 2019 6:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> qgis-user<br><b>Subject:</b> [Qgis-user] problem with older version<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>hi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>I use win 10 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>I used to work with few previous versions of qgis in the last 3 years<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> few month ago I started using 3.4.5 and set out a new project with this version<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>out of several reasons ( problem with synch my layers with the the local survey ), I tried to use again 2.18.26 ( las palmas) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>while trying to open the last project ( which I did with 3.4.5 ) I was amazed to see that while opening the project, apart of 5 layer /directories out of 32 directories and dozens of sub directories and layers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>the layers that did appear don't have something in common in relation to what didn't appear.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>I hope that I covered enough to get your help<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>I don't know what to write more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'>thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'> boaz<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>