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digitalhippie

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Hi Guys

Apologies if I am missing something obvious.

I've purchased the Pro version of Topofusion so I can work on .shp files, however Topofusion can't open any of the .shp files, instead returning the message:

Error Reading File: followed by the file name

Any help would be appreciated. I can provide one of the .shp files if needed.

Thanks!

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Re: Can't open .shp files in Pro version (reason I bought Pro version)
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 08:15:20 PM »
Hiya,

If you can either attach one of the .shp files here, or send it to me by email (in sig), I'll take a look-see.

Thanks.
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Re: Can't open .shp files in Pro version (reason I bought Pro version)
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 08:29:39 PM »
Thanks Scott, have emailed one of the .shp files just now.

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Re: Can't open .shp files in Pro version (reason I bought Pro version)
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2012, 03:26:26 AM »
Thanks for the excellent support Scott!

Appreciate it.

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Re: Can't open .shp files in Pro version (reason I bought Pro version)
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2012, 06:31:06 AM »
I just noticed the same thing with a .shp I was trying to load.  I have had success in the past when loading .shp files.  The main difference is that I am now using Arc10. 

Is there something I need to do?

Brian

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Re: Can't open .shp files in Pro version (reason I bought Pro version)
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2012, 10:35:37 AM »
I believe there is a bug in the shapefile routine, introduced in the latest version.  I get it figured out and a new version out next week.
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Re: Can't open .shp files in Pro version (reason I bought Pro version)
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2012, 02:03:09 PM »
After looking at this closely, I did not find any errors.  I upgraded v4.5 of TF to the latest version of the shapefile library, however that did not help read your file.  It just immediately throws an exception that it's not a valid shapefile from the get go.

Let me know if you guys still experience problems.  Maybe libshapefile hasn't supported certain extensions for Arc10 yet.  Thanks.
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Re: Can't open .shp files in Pro version (reason I bought Pro version)
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2012, 01:41:34 PM »
Still throwing the error for me.  I'm going to try to run the shapefile through QGIS to see if it 'fixes' it.