Lisa, Something to try. Take your original SDE feature class with old data and add the fields to accommodate the new data (creating a shell to load data into), then select and delete all features in the old data, save edits. Then try 'Load Objects' to bring new data into the old Feature Class. Also possibly the same method, but use 'Append Tool'. Reloading SDE with Load Objects has been more effective for myself though. The only thing I'm unsure of is what adding new fields does to the functionality of SDE, such as maybe replication, I only work local admin and don't deal with schema changes. Chase
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