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Arc Pro Slow to delete feature class

RebeccaWatson1

I'm using ArcPro 3.0.2, signed in to my AGOL account. I have a geodatabase on my computer that I am accessing via the Catalog window, the GDB has 9 feature classes in it. When I try to delete one of these FC from the GDB it is taking just shy of 2 minutes to complete the process. The feature class is not big, 186 points with 4 attributes. Pro has always been slow but this is worse than usual. Any suggestions to speed up the process?

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cle444

March 2024. ArcGIS Pro 3.2. Same issue. Deleting a few feature classes within a local GDB takes 5+ minutes. It is just sad for such an expensive software.

MatthewGeorge

BUG-000163579 has been logged against this issue.

AllanBenvin_yyc

I have a bug in for performance degradation between Pro 2.9 and 3.x. - BUG-000161441

Operations such as arcpy.Describe or arcpy.Exists are 25 times slower. I used these to test as they are very simple and discrete and widely used in scripts and likely in Pro itself.

MatthewGeorge

I've finally been able to get a bug logged. Will post the info when I receive the bug number.

NickSwartz

deleting an empty table....... same thing pro 3.2

AllanBenvin_yyc

Same thing for me, using Pro 3.1.1. Delete a featureclass with 100 records takes over a minute. Rename also takes a long time.

I did some performance testing on some thing and found that basic operations like arcpy.Exists or arcpy.Describe are 3 to 25 times slower than a similar machine when going against and enterprise GDB (Oracle in my case).

Example results for arcpy.Describe were:

Pro 2.9: 0.1seconds

Pro3.1: 4.02 seconds

I have submitted this to ESRI and it is logged as a bug BUG-000161441

I'm not sure if the cause is the same but it seems to be very widespread. If these basic tasks are so much slower I'm sure the cumulative effects are even worse.

MatthewGeorge

A minor update - decided to delete a Feature Class via Catalog in Pro while I had Diagnostic Monitor running and it looks like doing this triggers the project to try and load every single data source that is used in any map in the project, regardless of whether the map is open or not, before it finally does the delete. If that is the case then it's definitely a bug.

JackFanZhang

I came here becaue of the same reason. Delete a feature class from local drive which was not been used by any map taking more than 10 minutes. "I wonder how, I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue-blue sky
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree
I'm turnin' my head up and down
I'm turnin', turnin', turnin', turnin', turnin' around
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree"

Scoth

I actually had good results deleting unnecessary Maps, and removing unnecessary GDBs from the project. Not sure which one helped, but my guess is the project (aprx) just became too bloated. I had like 10 maps, and 20 GDBs. I didn't delete the GDBs, just removed the ones I wasn't using from my project. It's a bit weird that the number/size of other GDBs would affect deletion speed of feature classes in one GDB, but I've seen weirder things.

VincentNoynay

Same! I've been trying to delete feature classes on a GDB. I've tried using the Delete (Data Management Tools) but the progress bar just holds at 4% and no other message comes up. I've also tried relocating my GIS folder directly under C: but no effect can be seen from doing so. Same thing happens. Any help is appreciated!

Scoth

Same here. ArcPro is incredibly frustrating to use. Deleting things takes forever.

MatthewGeorge

I actually created a separate thread about creating a new FGDB taking forever as well. Definitely just another ridiculous issue with Catalog via Pro.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/fix-create-file-geodatabase-in-arcgis-pro-v3-x/m-p/1305233#M70757

RebeccaWatson1

Just to add to this, there doesn't seem to be any improvement. I'm now using 3.1.2 and I'm currently at seven minutes for ArcPro creating a new empty File Geodatabase in a folder ... make that eight.... nine... done. Now to rename it 🙄 😩

MatthewGeorge

I'm in the same boat! Rename is hit and miss but Delete is horrendously slow every time! I'm trying to migrate users to Pro from ArcMap/Catalog and they aren't happy about basic things like this.

I've also tried to do this programmatically for Feature Classes in memory, FGDBs, and EGDBs and in every case it takes a ridiculous amount of time to do.

We're running Pro v3.1.1.

JoeNicholas

Pro 3.1.2

Same/similar problem. Deleting or renaming (anything) in catalog is prohibitively slow. ArcCatalog 10.8.2 does the same functions almost instantly.

I want to like Pro... but I don't trust it.

JenniferEvershed1

I have the same problem. Basic Catalog functions like creating new empty feature classes (even with no additional attributes), deleting relatively small layers and even renaming a feature class takes sooo much longer than it did in ArcMap. I find myself sitting here watching the wheel spinning thinking 'what are you thinking about', it drives me crackers! Have been trying to keep my file paths shorter as I understand that can slow things down but it doesn't seem to make much difference. I'm using 3.0.1. If I could fix one thing in Pro (and there are a few on my list) it would be this!

OliverScheidegger

ArcGIS 3.0.3 and I just experienced 2min delay in deleting one 2MB geodatabase

RebeccaWatson1

Thanks 🙂 It's good to know it's not just me. The slowness does seem to be associated with the catalog aspects of Pro - adding feature classes, deleting them, creating gdb etc. Not sure if anyone from ESRI is looking into a fix for this but maybe starting with that might help.

ChristiHallman

I can't offer a solution but wanted you to know you are not alone! I am also experiencing looooooon delete processing times. Trying to delete 29 rasters from from gdb taking 30 min plus...

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