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QGIS only sees the First Row in the DBF file

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by downloading the attached ShapeExport.3.zip and reproducing the problem in QGIS, then compare its DBF interpretation with dbfopener.com and Google Earth Pro. Trace the repository's DBF writer from the generated file back to the row-writing behavior; done means QGIS displays every DBF row from the supplied dataset.

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Description

Hi

I am having issues with the DBF file created using this code. It is read perfectly by https://www.dbfopener.com/
but when I check in QGIS only 1 row shows.
Importing the SHP into google earth pro works (as in the info window shows all the data that is in the dbf table).

SHP, DBF, etc in the attached zip file

Any ideas?
ShapeExport (3).zip

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JavaScript
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