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I have many polygons with overlaps. I want to remove the part of the overlap that is between polygons.

I tried the "Symmetrical difference" tool, which gives me only the area overlapping and not the two polygons.

Red polygons are overlapping

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    Compute difference A-B and keep the result, and then B-A and keep the result. Commented Nov 24, 2019 at 19:12

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If you do a union without the optional layer

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you get your polygons splitted on the overlap

Then you need to run the algoritm 'join attributes by location (summary)'

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Choose '****equals' as predicate. Select one field (eg. id) as field to summarise. Check 'count' as summaries to calculate.

After running 'join attributes by location (summary)' you need to select the polygons with 'count_id = 1' and save them as a new layer.

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It sounds like you want to take the difference between your two layers. You may need to run the operation twice (for A-B and B-A) then join the results if you intend to have all of the data in the same layer. enter image description here

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