Latest Contributions by WilfredDarr

I didn't hear from you so I went and uninstalled ArcGIS, which was an exercise in itself: the uninstaller had the same issues with my removable drive as the updater was having. I ended up having to re-letter my drive and then that all worked. I wish after re-lettering my drive to 😧 that I would have tried the Calculate Geometry function, because at this point, everything else acted as predicted so I'm guessing it would have as well. At any rate, after reinstalling the Calculate Geometry function is acting exactly as it should (and ya it only takes about 10 seconds to run all the geometry in my file). Thanks for taking your time to look at this. Sincerely Wilf ... View more

Ahh, gotcha. Yes I can see how that would be useful. I'm green at this, so when I say I don't know of anything like that it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Hope you find it. ... View more

Fresh project, Fresh download of ne_10m_admin_0_countries. It took 3 seconds this time but still didn't do anything (I did refresh the table but that didn't help either)... ... View more

Thanks for your quick reply. Oh, that's a lot faster than I was expecting (we ran the generalize tool on what was (I thought at least) a small data set in a MOOC IIRC and it took 3-15 minutes for the students depending on the rig (I'm using a laptop) so I was expecting area calculations on all the weird areas to take longer than 3 seconds (even interpolating for my laptop it should take less than a minute then?). As for the version, I'm using Pro 2.5.1: I did try and update that last night but I have it installed on Drive E: and the installer gets broken by that (Error 1327 Invalid Drive D:) Their response on the support ticket this morning was to uninstall my Drive E: version and install on my Drive C:. Not the solution I was looking for, but I wonder if that could be part of the issue as well if it's not designed to be run off Drive E:?  I have not found any other issues due to it being installed on Drive E:, this would be the first. I'll leave it as is until I hear again from you, but if I don't hear from you by the weekend I'll update then I've tried a new project with a fresh GDB and added that shape but it does the same thing, so I don't think its the GDB  unless my ArcGIS Pro is building bad GDBs for some reason (again could the Drive E: be the issue?). I can't upload folders to the forum, so I'm going to share it via Google Drive: Wilfs_World contains my global shapes etc. including the Wilfs_World Multi-poly Shape in question, and the Kids Globe Project has the GDBs etc. WIlfs_World - Google Drive  Kids Globe Project - Google Drive  Thanks again for taking the time on this. Sincerely Wilf ... View more

Would the "Calculate Geometry Attributes" tool work for what you need? (Ironically, the reason I'm on the forum this evening is because I can't get the darned thing to output for me, but in theory, it seems like if it's working it could be the solution to both our problems? ... View more

Rita Hodges Were you able to resolve this? I've been having the same problem this evening (and to confirm, it's not populating the column with "0": I've tried running it on other populated columns and got no change). Nothing is happening. First of all, I'm very green, and though I'm sure I've done this before in a MOOC, I can't find the lesson now to confirm how I did it, but I feel like there's not too much I can screw up here: as far as I know it should just be calculating and depositing the numbers in the column I made for the purpose, but it's not! It says it's running the process in less than a second, and I know that's not possible (I've added a bunch of islands that even if it had the unedited values cached, it would take more than a second to calculate, and since I'm pretty sure that's not the case, I'm expecting this to take several minutes if not hours!). This originally is the "ne_10m_admin_0_countries" dataset, so I don't know if there's something there that limits me? Also it was missing Cabo Verde poly so at some point I merged in the Cabo Verde layer found on the CV government site: The same problem occurs when I run the tool on that data. And though I did a complete botch job on merging them (the columns were/still are a mess) I don't see how that or anything else on either of those should stop the CGA tool from running. Also, I'd like to confirm that this task is run locally, that this isn't some sort of network/credit issue. Beyond that I'm at a loss. I even restarted my system. Drew Flater I'm not sure "the layer doesn't have a selection, definition query, etc that limits which records are processed by the geoprocessing tool", but the way I understand it, if I can see in the map pane it's seen by the tool process as well no? Here's some screens to make sure I'm not missing something obvious.  ... View more

ArcGIS Pro 2.5, Student License, doing the NorthridgeQuake assignment from "Getting Started with ArcGIS" ESRI course, and my problem seems the same as above: I have duplicated all my layers to play with from 2D to 3D and vica versa, and the swipe works a charm in the 2D, but not at all in the 3D. Any experienced insight would be much appreciated Wilf PS. On further investigation, I'm noticing that the "Flicker" button greys out, but the "Swipe" button is still selectable, though I'm not sure if it's because it's not working with 3D Scene, or because something in my layer doesn't allow it to work in 3D. Not sure if this is a useful hint or not, may have nothing to do with the price of tea in China ... View more