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Where does QGIS store info on a file's layers?
I used Dropbox to share shapefile so multiple users could edit them. This was a huge mistake! There was a recurring issue where all of the attributes ended up associated with the wrong features. Eg, ...
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Can the QField Android App integrate with Dropbox (in order to open & edit/view a desktop Project)?
As long as the project is portable this should work. We have tested btsync/resilio which is conceptually comparable to dropbox and did not experience any troubles.
In order to edit files they need to ...
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Where does QGIS store info on a file's layers?
Sounds like an issue with Dropbox, not GIS.
However, to answer your question, shapefiles store data in the dbf file, but all files are necessary as the other store indexes and other information (shx,...
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Import URL in QField on iPhone not working
I haven't used Dropbox yet. But with Google Drive, you need to use the download link and not the file sharing link
Regards
Nelson
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Sharing data in small remote organization
My recommendation is migrate to Geopackage instead of shapefiles and stored them inside a cloud service. That's the easiest way to work on my opinion, plus Geopackage works with SQLite so the ...
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