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Failed to open table Error creating map member

mariorizario

This is the second time I have run into this problem, and not sure what is going on.

I was editing polygons in an existing shapefile when I saved it it said something along the lines of "number of shapes do not match records" and a few of the polygons that I had created had disappeared. I shut it down, and restarted ArcPro, and now the shapefiles won't load at all. Instead I get the following message:

Failed to open table.

Error:

Error creating map member.

This is the second time I have run into this problem. I originally thought it was because there were a lot of records within the shapefile (>20,000) so I clipped the shapefile to only include records I was editing. This seemed to work for a while until I got the message today.

Any ideas? This is the second time this has happened and each time I have lost about 3-4 days of work. My process seems to work fine until the 3-4 day.

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Eugene_Adkins

Only an idea, but have you ever noticed if (and this is contingent upon the use of the attribute table) after creating a polygon and then entering the attribute information that you have accidentally pressed enter causing the attribute table entry to go down one row (ultimately creating a new row of attribute information without an accompanying polygon) and you enter attribute information in this row without realizing it? This accidental workflow can create a conflict between the number of actual polygon features and the records in the polygon’s attribute table.

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mariorizario

Thanks Dan. I was able to copy the shapefiles into a local geodatabase, but none of the edits that I had previously made are there, only the original shapefile prior to edits is there. I'm assuming you mean next time I am completing edits to use a geodatabase as it is more stable?

mariorizario

Unfortunately I don't know how to open and view the attribute table outside of Arc to delete the rows.

Eugene_Adkins

If you have some fields setup as not nullable you may have to address that (only if they will not delete), but other than that possible issue you should be able to simply highlight the attribute table row and delete it.

If that happens to resolve your issue be sure to mark it as solved by identifying the reply as the solution. It may help someone else in the future.

danretired

copy the shapefile into a locally saved file geodatabase and do your edits there.

It could be the shapefile causing the issues, and if the featureclass in the gdb edits fine, you can always export the result back to a shapefile if you need that as a final format

mariorizario

Yup, that probably is the case and what happened. Is there anyway to remove
that blank entry and fix the problem?

Eugene_Adkins

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