Feature request #20171
Unable to create a folder within the file name widget when saving layers
| Status: | Open | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Unknown | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 27992 |
Description
let's take a temporary layer you'd like to make permanent
Click on the icon, opening the "save scratch layer" dialog
browse to a folder and select/enter the name of the file
Now in the "file name" line edit widget, modify the path: replace a folder with a non-existing one
Normally, QGIS will just create the missing folder (as long as the user has rights) and add the new file in it.
Now you get a:
Could not make temporary scratch layer permanent.
Error: Creation of layer failed (OGR error: Failed to create file E:\GitHub\QGIS-Training-Data\exercise_data\shapefile\places.shp: No such file or directory)
I had to create the "shapefile" folder before it saves the data.
Also occurs when using the "save features as..." tool and maybe other widgets
History
#1
Updated by Alessandro Pasotti about 6 years ago
Are you sure this is really a regression?
#2
Updated by Harrissou Santanna about 6 years ago
- Tracker changed from Bug report to Feature request
Actually, no. Just tested on 2.18 and at least there, it does seem to be the same behavior: OK is disabled until the filename contains an existing folder. No way to create folder directly. Weird I've never noticed.
Sorry for the noise. Moving it to feature request then.
#3
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 6 years ago
- Priority changed from High to Normal