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Contents Pane Gone, Won't Open

FelixLandry2

I'm switching to ArcGIS Pro from QGIS. Everything's been going fine, but today the contents pane in all my map projects disappeared and pressing the contents pane button under the view tab doesn't do anything. It gone from my existing map projects and any new ones I create. Any ideas?

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Robert_LeClair

Felix – when I see strange behavior like this I delete (or rename) the Esri folders in the following directories:

C:\Users\<user profile>\AppData\Roaming\Esri

C:\Users\<user profile>\AppData\Local\Esri

Typically the issue goes away at this point.

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StephanieShaw1

https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/projects/index-project-items.htm

Here is a good resource to explain specifically where the problem is occuring; so you can choose what to keep and what needs to be reset. I have a lot of database connections and gis server connections that I don't want to lose, just to get my Table of Content to display. Note: Whatever fix you choose should be followed by a full reboot.

FelixLandry2

This makes sense. I just recently upgraded. Thanks for all the additional discussion.

Robert_LeClair

One workflow you do is instead of renaming or deleting the entire Esri folder, one could rename/delete just the C:\Users\<user profile>\AppData\Roaming\Esri\ArcGISPro and the C:\Users\<userprofile>\AppData\Local\ESRI\ArcGISPro directory so to impact ArcMap. Haven't tried this this myself but is less extreme.

Robert_LeClair

I don't believe you'd have to do this often. I've had to this once, maybe twice in the past year. This was attributed to doing an upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 without the full uninstall/clean install.

MikeVolz

I've been using ArcMap for many years and renaming the Normal.mxt file has resolved many issues, but it does come with a cost where customizations of the UI (including but not limited to toolbars) need to redone which is trivial for some users but more time consuming for those with a large amount of customization. Renaming an entire directory which is Robert's solution (that did solve your problem) could result in a user needing to redo all this customization in Pro. I am more concerned with renaming this folder though, if ArcMap is also installed on the computer as it shares these folders. As such ArcMap would be impacted by this fix even if ArcMap was working fine, so now you would need to restore ArcMap's customizations as well as Pro customizations if you are working in a dual environment (Based on many user's comments on GeoNet I would think this is/will be a common scenario as org's transition from ArcMap to Pro as functionality is still lacking in Pro and it is cost prohibitive for endusers to have dedicated machines for ArcMap and Pro).

FelixLandry2

Michael Volz‌ I would love to hear more about this as well. Is this something you can give any additional details on Robert LeClair‌??

MikeVolz

Is this a similar remedy to renaming the Normal.mxt for ArcMap as that is only 1 file being impacted where this remedy is affecting many files? If you have both ArcMap and Pro installed on the same computer, because not all functionality is available in Pro, could this impact ArcMap's operations?

FelixLandry2

Robert, I just got through deleting the files you identified and it appears to have done the trick. Thanks so much for the feedback. Is this something you've had to do often?

shan_sarkar

Oh my bad! Thanks Dan Patterson‌, I replied on the post after a coffee break, must have skipped my mind.

DanPatterson_Retired

apparently he tried it already

….pressing the contents pane button under the view tab doesn't do anything....

shan_sarkar

Felix,

You can simply Navigate to the View tab in ArcGIS Pro and click on the contents button to bring the Contents pane back.

~Shan

Robert_LeClair

Not temporary rather they remember the configuration of your AGP setup like Folder connections, DB connections, etc...

FelixLandry2

Thanks for responding, I'll give it a go and check back. Are these temporary files?

Robert_LeClair

Felix – when I see strange behavior like this I delete (or rename) the Esri folders in the following directories:

C:\Users\<user profile>\AppData\Roaming\Esri

C:\Users\<user profile>\AppData\Local\Esri

Typically the issue goes away at this point.

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