Hi,
if you are not using the patched version of QGIS 1.7 (the next 1.7.1) than you probably hit this bug http://woostuff.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/slow-opening-of-rasters-in-qgis-1-7-here-is-a-fix/ Cheers -- Giovanni -- On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 12:50 -0400, Jeff Ruby wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to load a vrt file in 1.7 and it takes forever...so long > that I just close 1.7 before it's done. The same file loads almost > instantly in 1.6. Any ideas? > > Some more details: > > The vrt file is a collection of 10 geotiff images. > Each geotiff is about 1.2GB. > All geotiffs have external pyramid files (.tif.ovr) > > Thanks much, > -Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user