ArcGIS Pro 2.6: What is the function of Index and ImportLog folders that are created along with the aprx?
I couldn’t figure out the function of the Index and ImportLog folders that are created along with the aprx
thumbnails of your maps for one... did you look into the folders and see all the weirdly named jpg files?
eg 00B42E22-481E-481D-8336-004FEF7BB345.jpg
put your file explorer to view thumbnails rather than list
Hi Jamal, you can find some discussion of the index folder and import log folder in the documentation. See the topic Projects in ArcGIS Pro, specifically the section Project files and their associated files.
Thank you guys for the input.
I observed that multiple files\folders created along with the aprx file. Is there any setting that enable saving in a single aprx file without having any other related files
You have some control over auxiliary files but I don't think complete control. Take a look at the General options topic. You can designate one geodatabase and one toolbox as the default for all projects--then you don't have new gdb and tbx files created for each project. You can turn off project recovery--I assume the .backups folder is not created in that case, but haven't tested. You can also turn off indexing--again, I'm not really sure if that means no Index folder is created. (And I'm not sure you want to turn off indexing if you need to search for files.) But that's as much as I know.
Many thanks Tim.
What I wanted here is to end up with one single aprx file (mxd of ArcMap is used to be one single file)
It's really not so different. In ArcMap, you save your geoprocessing outputs to a geodatabase. You save your models and scripts to a toolbox. You save other things like styles, calculations, placemarks, and so on, to various external files. Not all your work is stored in the mxd. Same with Pro. It's just that Pro makes you more conscious of these external objects and (by default) creates a new geodatabase and toolbox for each project.
In ArcMap, all your geoprocessing outputs from all your mxds go to the gdb in your user profile (C:\Users\<username>\Documents\ArcGIS\Default.gdb) unless you designate a different geodatabase. Pro tries to be smart and save outputs to a geodatabase specifically created for the work you're doing now--so it doesn't get mixed up with work you did for some other reason six months ago.
But if you don't like that, you can set your application options so that by default your gp outputs are stored in the same geodatabase and your custom tools are stored in the same toolbox. Within a project, you can make any geodatabase the default for that project. You can override the default by sending any tool output to a different geodatabase (or by changing the default). It's flexible, just like ArcMap.
As an FYI....
export more folders... If you start using raster functions and Pro's Jupyter notebooks, then you will get more.
A good reason to create a folder to store your project in
Does anyone know if it's okay to delete the XML files that are in the "ImportLog" folders?
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