I’m not sure what the problem is, but if I were doing that repeatedly, I’d probably use Layer -> Save As, tick the Save Only Selected Features box and save it to CSV. Then muck about with excel later.
This way ought to be a bit lighter on the memory. Ramon. > On 10 Jan 2018, at 04:25, Jeroen Hovens <m...@groenebij.nl> wrote: > > Hi, > > Using qgis 2.14.18 I have been working today with a large csv file (7.5 mln > objects). I just need selections of this database which I can then modify in > excel. So I opened the attribute table and made a selection based on a > specific value for an attribute, and copied that selection (about 30.000 > objects) via the clipboard (ctrl-c) to a new Microsoft Excel file, then saved > the excel file and repeated the process for another selection. This worked > perfect for some time. However, some selections won’t copy: when I press the > copy button the programs turn to ‘not responding’ and won’t snap out of it > anymore. Selection size when this happens is about the same (about 20k to > 35k objects). > > What could be the problem? Could the data be corrupted? How can I check what > is wrong? > > Thank you > Gr. > Jeroen > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org> > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user>
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