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ArcGIS Pro taking forever to delete features

jbcypreste

There's a polygon datased I need to clean before creating my map. It's not a big dataset, under 10 MB.

When I load my project, I can delete one polygon, or a group of polygons I have selected. A few times anyway. After a few edits, it just decides to stay in the "deleting selected features" forever. This happens even if I delete one by one. I tried saving edits, saving project, closing edit and saving project again between each deletion, but it doesn't work. I'm not working with any encumbering dataset in the project either. The only solution is nuking the whole application because it just won't respond. Ever.

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Robert LeClair

jbcypreste - it sounds like a corrupt *.aprx may be the culprit if you have no issues editing the feature class in a new *.aprx. To test, delete the corrupt map view, rebuild the map view, save your *.aprx, try the delete workflow again. What is the result?

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SusanPollard

Deleting is the same ridiculously slow process that fails and wont do a calculate field either. I also have to revert to 10.8 desktop to undertake same processes that are quick. Using ArcGIS pro 3.5.2 on Lenovo and also have adequate processing power for 10.8 why not ArcGIS PRO. Selecting features is also painfully slow in PRO.

dougbrowning

Running into this today. Waited over an hour to just delete 86,000 records. Brand new map twice. I was able to calc a field in a few minutes.

Usually some of this caused by relates where a parent delete will go Null all the child keys on you - which it really should NOT do since it is a "unmanaged" relationship class.

wayfaringrob

I have trouble understanding why 32 GB of RAM should be required to simply rename or delete something that takes a negligible amount of time in a different program on the same machine...sounds more like an issue with the "Pro" software than the specs.

Robert LeClair

jbcypreste

Yes, mine is a lenovo thinkstation. I've been editing multi-gigabyte datasets from both local and network for a while with pro and it always worked okay.

ArcGIS pro also freezes forever sometimes when trying to save these edits.

The weird thing is this only happens on a specific map. If I load the same dataset on another map on the same project, it works fine. I've been doing this as a workaround.

mvolz47

Do your machines meet ESRI's recommendations of 32GB of RAM? Have you tried these operations on a local data set to see if that makes a difference?

wayfaringrob

I have similar issues in Pro constantly - deleting, copying, moving data all takes an insanely long amount of time. If I have more than a few edits, I'm going to ArcMap & ArcCatalog, which do these types of operations instantly.

Based on past experience, I have little faith that it'll be addressed, but you can upvote this idea: Speed up catalog operations, as benchmarked by Arc... - Esri Community

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