I'm running ArcGIS Pro 2.2.3 and it keeps opening read only projects when I open projects for the first time. If I then close these and re-open it seems fine.
Hey, this might be because you have unsaved edits in your original project. When you then try to save further edits (in a read-only version), ArcGIS won't let you save those to the original. Hope this helps.
I am experiencing this exact issue, it just started in the past 2 days. It does not tell me when the Read Only version of the project opens, so I find out the next time I remember to hit save and it doesn't let me.
The edits I make in layers while the project is Read Only also do not get saved somehow (even though I made sure to hit save edits). This doesn't make any sense to me, but the only thing I've been able to do to get around it is save the project with a new name.
I had a python script open first and then I went to open Pro before closing the script. That's when I encountered the Read Only issue. Even though I closed both programs, python was still running in the background and it was holding onto my Pro project.
Did you have a python process running when you closed the project?
If not, do you know how long the background python processes run for after the aprx file is closed?
I'm on Pro version 5.2 and had this same issue on a VM through remote desktop. For me what I discovered was that even though I had closed all ArcGIS Pro projects, it was still running in python. So I went into Task Manager and closed all python background processes and this resolved the read only issue.
I hope this helps someone.
Michael
According to the ESRI documentation, you should be able to delete the lock from the Python script to the aprx file by using the 'del aprx_variable' command. I have this at the end of my script(s) and still run into the issue where I have to shutdown my IDE in order to actually release the lock on the project file. *shrugs*
I encountered this issue while using a remote desktop connection and running ArcGIS Pro on a server.
I had created my original project with Pro 2.4.2, and the server had Pro 2.4.1.
When I opened the project I had created on my desktop with Pro 2.4.1, the file became read-only. Trying to save the project by overwriting the original project with the same name led to an error (I can't remember which one exactly.) To solve the issue, I saved the project a second time with a different name, and deleted the original project created in 2.4.1.
It's been working so far.
I had to delete the connection to the portal from the registry.
I sometimes had success with ending the Python process in Windows Task Manager
I am loading the document in a stand alone script and I think it is locking the document. How do I release the document in the python IDE?
Mine appeared to be if Jupyter Notebook was running and accessing the document, this problem would happen if the code failed to run, like it wasn't releasing the lock on the document. I'd have to close down Jupyter & all of it's processes before it'd fix the problem.
I faced similar issues, opened and closed a file that I've created months ago because it kept opening in Read-Only mode. The solution for me was to restart my laptop and it worked like normal again after that.
I came across the same problem, and it directed me to here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/projects/open-a-project.htm. It seems opening the same project within the same directory at the same time causes this issue. Therefore it happens when multiple users try to work on the project within the shared network drive.
FYI: In case you control the project by standalone python in Jupyter notebook with opening the project in ArcGISPro app at the same time, once you close the app and try to open the project in app again, it will happen. After you close all Jupyter windows, you could successfully open the project in ArcGISPro app.
yeah, I turned it off and on again and it works...
I shutdown my computer for 1 minute and restarted and was able to access my Pro documents. Not a great fix but I didn't want to keep making new documents.
Unfortunately not. Kate and I have no idea why this is occurring. To be fair we haven't actually done much to look into the problem - actually problems as Kate's and mine are slightly different. I have just been saving as and then opening the new one. Works for a while and then I have to do it again. It will get annoying enough soon to try to look into it. I don't have a lot of hope though - these intermittent problems never seem to have a satisfactory solution...
I just started having this issue. Map Projects I created for exporting large Map Series are now opening as Read - Only. I created this project in ArcPro about 2 months ago, and it is now doing this. Any headway?
My suggestion would be to work with your IT department to find out if firewall or antivirus could be the culprit.
Huh - I've just noticed - Kate started this thread - she's in my team! Maybe it's something on our network setup interfering with ArcPro....
No - on a network drive. I've never had this problem with ArcMap or any other programme. I did think for a while it was because someone else opened the same project file. I've been working on a project with a number of other people recently. But last night it was just me - with a project I had just created so that's not it. I do have a couple of other weird things happening that no-one else in my organisation is experiencing but this has happened to others in my team as well.
Hmm.. that's odd behavior. Where is the project saved? On a local drive?
ArcGIS Pro 2.3.2 - Projects I have created maybe 1/2 and hour ago - no one else is accessing them or editing any of the layers in them I successfully saved the project a number of times and then all of a sudden it is read only and I can't save it. The only thing I can do in order not to lose everything is to save to another project. So very very frustrating. Why is it doing this?
Using ArcGIS Pro version 2.3.1. Same situation here. A project that has been saved can only be opened in read-only mode. I have tried opening the application then opening the file. I have also tried double clicking the aprx file. The result is the same.
It might be the case, so it might be trying to avoid people using 'save' and writing a new version, which they will then try to open on the older version.
See if 'Save' is disabled, forcing the user to choose 'Save As'. If that is the case, the newer version should not be read only.
Not necessarily, they can be from different versions. Surely this shouldn't make them open as a read only though still?
Opening projects that have previously been created
Kate,
The projects that you are trying to open in arcgis pro 2.2.3 were they made in the same version of arcgis pro?
~Shan
… " opening read only projects " ...
Do you mean that you got projects from somewhere, and they open as read-only when you first open them?
Or do you mean that you are creating a new project and it opens as read-only?
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