https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/add-warning-turning-off-archiving-effects-related/idi-p/1644605 <P>When turning off Archiving on a feature class, Archiving is also turned off on related tables and feature classes.</P><P>In my case I had a table with Archiving turned on and Versioning turned Off. This table only had a few records in the Archive. However, the table had a relationship class with a feature class with an a archive of 600k records going back 9 years.</P><P>I wanted to turn on Versioning on the table. To do that, I had to turn off Archiving. I didn't preserve the archive because it only had a few records. Apparently this action also turned off Archiving in the related feature class and the history table was deleted.</P><P>I would have liked to have received a warning on the implications of my action: Warning: you are also turning off Versioning in related tables (and are deleting the archive).</P> Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:45:37 GMT LaurensKusse_hhdelfland 2025-08-22T07:45:37Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/add-warning-turning-off-archiving-effects-related/idi-p/1644605 <P>When turning off Archiving on a feature class, Archiving is also turned off on related tables and feature classes.</P><P>In my case I had a table with Archiving turned on and Versioning turned Off. This table only had a few records in the Archive. However, the table had a relationship class with a feature class with an a archive of 600k records going back 9 years.</P><P>I wanted to turn on Versioning on the table. To do that, I had to turn off Archiving. I didn't preserve the archive because it only had a few records. Apparently this action also turned off Archiving in the related feature class and the history table was deleted.</P><P>I would have liked to have received a warning on the implications of my action: Warning: you are also turning off Versioning in related tables (and are deleting the archive).</P> Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:45:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-ideas/add-warning-turning-off-archiving-effects-related/idi-p/1644605 LaurensKusse_hhdelfland 2025-08-22T07:45:37Z