topic Error: Number of shapes does not match table records in Data Management Questions

Error: Number of shapes does not match table records

MariyanaKostov1 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 15:16:33 GMT

I have merged 12 shapefile tiles of contours into one, exported it into a shapefile, and when I try to add the shapefile to my map I get an error message

Re: Error: Number of shapes does not match table records

VinceAngelo — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 15:56:57 GMT

The shapefile has been corrupted. Normally this is due to manipulation of the .dbf file by some dBase-III+ aware utility which is NOT shapefile aware. But in this case, it's probable that you've simply exceeded the valid feature count on the shapefile format (the limit is based on vertex count [~76M vertices], so the actual feature limit is dependent on average vertices per feature; once the .shp writer exceeds 2^31 bytes, it stops trying).

Your best bet to avoid this is to use file geodatabase, not shapefile (FGDB is also much smaller, since it uses compression and variable width strings).

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Re: Error: Number of shapes does not match table records

khwairakpamkhoimusingh — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:13:35 GMT

so is there anyway to recover this

Re: Error: Number of shapes does not match table records

JessicaSmucker1 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 20:16:00 GMT

Use QGIS to load the file and then export to a new version.