File Geodatabase feature class reports more features than are actually present

Question

Have got a file geodatabase with a number of classes.  One of them, named P_Service, when clicked on in ArcCatalog reports there are 167,876 when in fact there are 83,938 features.   At least when I click "Move to End" there are 83,938 features present.   And that's what I expect, 83,938.  Any reason why ArcCatalog would be telling me the class has got twice as many records as are actually present?

Any comments/suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thx

Ed

LanceShipman · Answer

Copying a feature class creates a new feature class and copies the contents. Copying the file geodatabase does a system copy of the contents of the file geodatabase. The most likely problem is that the file header of the feature class, which contains the count of features, has somehow got out of sync with the data. We have seen this a a few sites, but have never been able to reproduce the issue. It shouldn't be possible. If you see this issue again, please post the workflow and any information that you can.

EdwardBlair · Answer

Actually, in some cases yes.  I copied the feature class into another

Geodatabase and the ArcCatalog reported count matched the expected count.

However if I copied the entire Geodatabase to another Geodatabase it did

not resolve the issue.

In my case I was able to re-populate the class from scratch.  So I

truncated the contents.  Found the count to be 0 (thank goodness) and

executed steps to reload the class.  After which the reported and actual

feature counts matched.

Thanks for the reply!

Ed

LanceShipman · Answer

Copy the data. Does this resolve the problem?