Hi, Please extract the contents of the zip file first into a destination folder of choice. When opening a shapefile, navigate to your folder to select the shapefile(s). Hope this helps.. Yemi On Jan 4, 2014 9:13 AM, "Matt_Klick" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm very new to any GIS type platforms, so please forgive the ignorance on > display here (and I did search for answers to this elsewhere). I've > downloaded QGIS 2.0.1. I separately downloaded Tunisia administrative data > from DIVA-GIS. When I open QGIS, it does not find the .zip file, nor any of > the shp files. In my efforts to correct, I managed to convert shp files > into > pdfs. Even though I've re-installed QGIS, and deleted and re-downloaded > Tunisia files, shp files are once again pdfs, and QGIS cannot "see" any shp > files. Any advice, or thoughts on what I'm doing wrong, greatly > appreciated. > -MK > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Newbie-QGIS-won-t-recongize-shp-files-comp-turns-shp-files-into-pdfs-tp5096322.html > Sent from the Quantum GIS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >
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