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)
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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