I recently had one of my coworkers make some edits to a feature class and add a couple of new feature classes within a file geodatabase. for some reason when I went to verify the work that was done, the edits and the new feature classes were not displaying. I was only able to access them after adding a new connection to the file gdb. I did have the .gdb set as the default for the .aprx, but I don't see why that should cause an issue.
Is there any logical explanation as to why this occurred?