Using QGIS I've joined tabular text data (all in fields of less than 255 characters) to a shapefile via a CSV file. All looks good in the joined table but when I save to a new shapefile to make the join permanent the long text fields get truncated to between 50-100 characters. How can I avoid this? It seems the problem is in the saving/exporting process since the initial join is fine.
I'm running QGIS 1.7.0 on Mac 10.6.8