I am trying to convert from decimal degrees to meters in QGIS. I have a shapefile that is currently in WGS84/UTM zone 19S. I have tried the save as – browse – WGS84 EPSG:4326 but this appears:
Export to vector file failed. Error: creation of data source failed
(OGR error:Failed to create directory .shp for shapefile datastore.)
Does anybody have any ideas? Or any other way of doing it?
I am using QGIS 2.2.0
Best Answer
You did not specify a file name for the export.
In that case, QGIS tries to add ".shp" to a blank file name, which causes the error message you get.