How do I create a new layer using a selection from an attribute table in QGIS 2.10.1?
Previous answers on this topic do not help -perhaps because they relate to older versions of QGIS
[GIS] Creating new layer using selection from attribute table in QGIS
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After making a selection in a layer, right click on it and choose save selection as.
Update for QGIS 3.2 Bonn as of 2018
As this is the accepted answer and the way of doing this has evolved somewhat, beginners might find this answer incomplete, so:
After making a selection in a layer, right click on it and choose "Export" > "Save Selected Feature As..."
which is actually just a nice redundancy, because it takes you to the same mask as clicking "Save Feature As...", but it already checks the box "Save only selected features"
Try browsing to the location you want to save your shapefile.
The "save as" input field should have a path, for example: /Users/yourname/Desktop/example.shp
Best Answer
After selecting the features you want, go to
Layer -> Save as -> Under Encoding check 'save only selected feature'. A shortcut to the above process right-click the layer you selected features from, then go tosave as -> Under Encoding check 'save only selected feature'