How to re-project shapefiles?

Question

I wanted to re-project a QGIS project, but there is no such option. When searching for an answer I see ogr2ogr suggested for this task, by re-projecting each vector layer (shapefile in this example). However I don't get expected result:

C:\temp>ogrinfo -al -so misc.shp
INFO: Open of `misc.shp'
      using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.

Layer name: misc
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 10
Extent: (21.267388, 42.015857) - (21.270225, 42.017470)
Layer SRS WKT:
PROJCS["MGI_Balkans_zone_7_deprecated",
    GEOGCS["GCS_MGI",
        DATUM["Militar_Geographische_Institute",
            SPHEROID["Bessel_1841",6377397.155,299.1528128]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
        UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]],
    PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",21],
    PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9999],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",7500000],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
    UNIT["Meter",1]]
id: Integer (10.0)

C:\temp>ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:4326 misc_re.shp misc.shp

C:\temp>ogrinfo -al -so misc_re.shp
INFO: Open of `misc_re.shp'
      using driver `ESRI Shapefile' successful.

Layer name: misc_re
Geometry: Line String
Feature Count: 10
Extent: (-34.004490, 0.000230) - (-34.004490, 0.000230)
Layer SRS WKT:
GEOGCS["GCS_WGS_1984",
    DATUM["WGS_1984",
        SPHEROID["WGS_84",6378137,298.257223563]],
    PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
    UNIT["Degree",0.017453292519943295]]
id: Integer (10.0)

So new file has changed geographic coordinate system, but it's not projected.
How to do that?

Answer 1

Assuming you want to reproject a shapefile, one way within QGIS is to load the file, right-click on the layer, select Save As…, and then the following window appears:

If you click browse beside CRS you can choose a new projection to save your file in.

EDIT:

To reproject all shapfiles in the one folder, something like this could work:

set "str1=_projected"
for %f in (E:\data\*.shp) do ogr2ogr -t_srs EPSG:4326 %str1%"misc_re.shp %f

(I haven't tested this and am unfamiliar with string concatenation on windows, nor am I solving the ogr2ogr issue - but this code snippet loops through a folder and runs something on each file.)