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Is there a fix for ArcGIS Desktop 10.6.1 crashing during editing? 

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08-24-2018 06:50 AM
HeatherHolcomb
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‎08-24-2018 06:50 AM

Last week I upgraded from 10.3. to 10.6.1 and since then have experienced continual crashes while trying to edit a file geodatabase feature class using ArcGIS Desktop. The cashes occur at seeming random times and were varying in frequency from one every 25 minutes to one every 30 seconds. Today it escalated to one every 10 seconds. My editing consists of pretty simple cutting or merging polygons or adding data to the attribute table. It doesn't usually crash mid edit (as if it couldn't process) but happens after I've made an edit or after I've saved the file. 

I have tried MXD Doctor (no problems found), creating a new copy of the feature class, checking specs of my computer to make sure it can handle 10.6 (all good), and considered upgrading the status of the Geodatabase but that option is not available because "This 10 Geodatabase matches the ArcGIS release you are currently using."  

Any suggestions?  Please!

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KoryKramer
by Esri Community Moderator
Esri Community Moderator
‎12-05-2019 11:37 AM

ArcGIS (Desktop, Engine) 10.6.1 General Update Patch was just released today.  I'd highly recommend anybody who is pinned to 10.6.1 to install the general update patch, and, as stated on the download page:

For the best stability and performance, Esri® also recommends 10.6.1 users install all outstanding 10.6.1 patches, specifically the following:

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AndrewWilson99
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‎02-18-2020 08:40 PM

I had tried to forget how confusing it is when I deal with ArcMap patches but I am being cornered into a 10.6.1 install in our enterprise due to some compatibility issues between SAFE, ESRI and Oracle products.  As one that has previously wondered why the multitude of patches (three pages on this version!) aren't rolled up, I was initially glad to see this patch!  From reading the above and gleaning the download links for "bugs fixed", at first glance it appears that this General Update Patch includes many of the patches previously released, but not all (hence the list of additional "outstanding patches".  At a glance, those other "not covered" bugs are in the listed patches.   

That brings up the obvious question - why not include all previously released patches for 10.6.1 with this GUP?    It is great to have a dozen fewer patches, but five is still five, wouldn't  it be sharper to have just one patch rather than a half-dozen?    

Is there something I am missing in the ho-hum patches as compared to the out-standing patches?  Wouldn't it be nice, I thought, if explicit words on the patches that are rolled up that say something to the effect that "This patch is superseded by the General Update Patch" on each of those superseded patches, help avoid the Where's Waldo scratching, printing out copies of the other download pages to figure out if other non-listed patches are or aren't covered in this patch.

Since I was set on the path of looking for the red and white striped hat, I found that this appeared to be  a "mostly rolled up" affair.   There were bugs in non-listed patches that weren't listed as fixed in the GUP.  For example BUG-000123406 is addressed in the ArcGIS (Desktop, Engine, Server) Microsoft ( R ) Windows ( R ) June 2019 Security Update Compatibility Patch but that patch isn't in the "extras" set above nor is the bug listed in the GUP ephemera.   Is the Security Update still an issue or not?  (And yes, there are other bugs in the 10.6.1 list of patches that follow this pattern.)   


To distill this into questions,

  • Should I still install all 10.6.1 patches regardless of the "special emphasis" shown above in the GUP text?
  • Is there a list of what patches are actually rolled up into GUP and which aren't?
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