topic Re: Network Dataset only opens in Read-only in ArcGIS Network Analyst Questions

Network Dataset only opens in Read-only

amarcz_cc — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:04:14 GMT

Last week I built a network dataset on my testing server and it worked well and I like the results.

Now I am attempting to rebuild it on my production server but encounter an issue where it will only open in read-only mode. I just want to review some of the scripts in restrictions / hierarchy that I set but am unable to open them to inspect.

I have verified there are no locks, or connections, attempting to close and reopen ArcPro, restarted my computer, and even tried to old soft reset of renaming the folder Esri_OLD.

Any ideas as to why this is occurring?

ArcPro 3.2

Dataset version of 10.1

Re: Network Dataset only opens in Read-only

JaySandhu — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:13:44 GMT

Have you checked if you have a read only file share? Or you can try to copy it to another location and see if that works?

Jay Sandhu

Re: Network Dataset only opens in Read-only

amarcz_cc — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:04:54 GMT

It is within an sde, but I have removed any locks or connections to it and it persist. It is on a dev server that only I have access to and no services are running off it.. So I am hesitant to relocate it.

Re: Network Dataset only opens in Read-only

EdidiongEkanem — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 08:38:21 GMT

Hey, could you find any solution to this yet ?

Re: Network Dataset only opens in Read-only

amarcz_cc — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:46:15 GMT

@EdidiongEkanem I believe after you publish the Network Dataset to Portal that this occurs. To make any changes, you might have to delete it from Portal, then republish.

Re: Network Dataset only opens in Read-only

nick_of_the_north — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:11:37 GMT

I had a similar issue. It turned out to be caused by versioning. Turning versioning off for the feature dataset cleared the "read only" issue.

Re: Network Dataset only opens in Read-only

Brian_McLeer — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:37:30 GMT

I had the same issue, and unregistering as versioned work for me. Thank you @nick_of_the_north