Undo a Split that deleted data?

htracy

How can I undo a Split? I ran a Split on my polygon feature layer about a month ago and it deleted all the polygons that were on the borders of my "Split Features" layer (which was a layer of political boundaries). I want to undo this, because it reduced the amount of data I have. How can I accomplish this?

JohannesLindner

You can't really undo it if it happened that long ago. You can only recreate the deleted features by copying from a backup of your feature class or from the original data.

 

If your feature class is versioned, you can add the archive to the map and get the historic features from there.

If you made manual backups of your data, you could go back to a backup before the split and copy the missing features to your current feature class.

If you're working on a network drive, you can talk to your IT department, they might be doing automatic backups.

If none nof these apply, you're probably out of luck and have to redo your whole workflow for the deleted polygons.