Hello!
I am running ArcGIS Pro 3.3.1 and I am having trouble with features disappearing from a layer after I Append them. I have two layers in this situation: Invasive Plant Collection layer which is updated daily with new data and a Treatment data layer. In order to move attributes from the Invasive Plant Collection, I export all the data for a backup set of data, buffer out the points and lines, then use Append to add points, lines, and polygons to the Treatment layer. I am working with a rather large dataset (>14,000) and more is added every week with each Append containing minimum 500 datapoints.
When the tool is finished running, everything seems to be fine with the features showing up on the map viewer and the correct number attributes in the attribute table. I save the edits under the Edit tab and exit the project (I don't save the project because I download it from AGOL every time I need to use it). Sometimes this works, and the features are all good. But 8/10 times, I come back to the map a couple of days later and only 32 features (for example) are still in the attribute table. The rest seem to have been deleted(??) and aren't showing up in the map viewer.
Am I just working with such a large dataset that I'm doomed to redo my work every time I use Append? Or is there something ya'll know that I don't? I am going to meet with someone at some point this week to consult on the geodatabase and see if there is something wrong with it, but I'd like to know if there are other causes to this in case it is not the geodatabase messing up. Side question: is 18,000 attributes considered a large enough dataset to cause problems? Or is it small compared to what it could be?
Thanks in advance!
