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  • Thanks for your answer. Maybe my question wasn't clear enough. I'm using the GeoPackage as a small Geo-Database. I do have different tables in it (point, line, polygon layers). Then I want to save the selected features from a shape-file (which is not saved in the GeoPackage) to a new layer (or table with line geometry) inside of the GeoPackage. However, then I can only overwrite the whole GeoPackage instead of only adding it. Commented Oct 26, 2021 at 9:13
  • Yep thats ok, copy selected Features, then paste into the existing table will still work. If its a new table you need, then you can make the target layer writable, then select the target layer, and then paste............ I tend to use this method a lot because often there are fields I need to bulk populate afterwards. Commented Oct 27, 2021 at 1:35
  • Thanks, that works for the selection of features only. But it won't for processes like "merge vector layers" or "clip features". Commented Oct 27, 2021 at 5:11
  • correct... merge and clip functions are their own 'thing' so to speak and will produce output files/temporary datasets, which then need to be migrated back to original datasets. - Some of the geoprocessing tools do have a 'Edit Features in Place' capability which gets around this, which you may want to check out. But its limited in the tools which allow this. Commented Oct 28, 2021 at 6:39