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Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities

GaryMorris2

I recently took a new job and I have walked into a situation where there is no metadata for virtually anything created before I got here. I am trying to add a "Description" in ArcCatalog for a shapefile I received from a contractor that was doing some work before I got here. I do not have the option to add any, I understand that this is a permissions issue however, I do not know how to change the permissions to allow the editing of the "Description" The features within the shapefile are editable.

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Robert LeClair

Gary - I only saw one internal customer call with this error message and it was resolved by removing the Target for ArcGIS extension from GeoSoft. There's something about XML formats via that extension that causes the issue. Test on a machine without this extension. What is the result?

GaryMorris2

JayantaPoddar

What do you see when you right-click the shapefile > Edit Metadata?

GaryMorris2

It isn't opened anywhere, I even tried exporting it and adding it to a new file geodatabase and closing out everything and opening just catalog. It still doesn't give me the option.

danretired

try making sure the shapefile isn't open in a map or being used perhaps, otherwise check the file properties in Windows

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