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SLYR mdb tools utility on Mac

Open jjthebb opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

MacBook Pro M1 Processor iOS 13.4 QGIS 3.26.2

When tyring to conver an ESRI style file to GPL and / or QGIS using SLYR the following error appears:

This algorithm cannot be run :-( The MDB tools "mdb-export" utility is required to convert .style databases. Please setup a path to the MDB tools utility in the Settings - Options dialog, under the SLYR tab.

I have tried various mdb tool files and updated the path in settings under tthe SLYR tab, but maybe I have used the wrong one? Any advice / directory is appreciated. Thank you

jjthebb avatar Jul 18 '23 18:07 jjthebb

@jjthebb the first step would be to verify what the install path to mdbtools is on your system. If you open a terminal window and run which mdb-export do you get any helpful output?

nyalldawson avatar Jul 18 '23 23:07 nyalldawson

@nyalldawson thank you for your message. I don't get any helpful outputs. So what would be the correct place for it?

jjthebb avatar Jul 19 '23 06:07 jjthebb

Does that command show anything? Eg on linux it returns something like /usr/bin/mdb-export

nyalldawson avatar Jul 19 '23 06:07 nyalldawson

No, it shows nothing.

jjthebb avatar Jul 19 '23 07:07 jjthebb

Did you try brew install mdbtools which will install it into /usr/local/bin/mdb-export

m-kuhn avatar Dec 12 '23 17:12 m-kuhn