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I am getting the "handle bad layers error" in QGIS 2.18 for over 200 hundred cases.

I am not willing to manually change all these layers. Is there a way to make the program look in a new parent directory where all the files are located? It seems that I am only able to browse independently for each layer.

I tried recreating the folder structure for the place where the program tells me it's looking for the files, and it did not work.

***I'm using an older version of QGIS because that's where the project was originally created, and I've found that it's the only version that renders it correctly. In contrast to using a newer version of QGIS.

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  • Try changeDataSource plugin
    – Bera
    Commented Apr 11, 2023 at 5:10
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    Find your over 200 hundred data source strings in *.qgs project file and replace with text you need.
    – RainForest
    Commented Apr 11, 2023 at 6:16
  • This question has been asked before. See this answer here: gis.stackexchange.com/a/455182/88814
    – Babel
    Commented Apr 11, 2023 at 10:27
  • Thank you, I replaced text for most of them using search and replace in Notepad++, fixed a couple remaining bad layers using the plugin.
    – J.A.A.Sainz
    Commented Apr 26, 2023 at 1:12

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