topic Re: The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive, in ArcGIS Pro Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596923#M26281 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: black;">Not sure! This has been a big limitation for us to migrate to the Pro. The data structure is weird.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:23:50 GMT JamalNUMAN 2017-06-07T21:23:50Z The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive, https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596919#M26277 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive,</P><P></P><P>I couldn’t figure out why the ArcGIS Pro fails to create “Project” in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive. I have previously reported that the ArcGIS Pro also fails to connect to this “Root”.</P><P></P><P><IMG __jive_id="108941" alt="Clip_7.jpg" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/108941_Clip_7.jpg" style="width: 620px; height: 552px;" /></P><P></P><P>Why might be the issue here?</P><P></P><P>Best</P><P></P><P>Jamal</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:39:31 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596919#M26277 JamalNUMAN 2015-06-11T12:39:31Z Re: The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive, https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596920#M26278 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Jamal,</P><P></P><P>This is a security setting included by default with ArcGIS Pro.&nbsp; I would assume this is to mitigate unauthorized access to the root folder of your system.</P><P></P><P>From the help page:</P><P><SPAN class="ph" style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fefefe;">ArcGIS Pro</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fefefe;"> does not support adding folder connections to the project that access the root node of any disk, for example, </SPAN><SPAN class="usertext" style="padding: 0.3125em; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; color: #4d4d4d; background: none #fefefe;">C:\</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fefefe;"> or </SPAN><SPAN class="usertext" style="padding: 0.3125em; font-family: 'Lucida Console', Monaco, monospace; color: #4d4d4d; background: none #fefefe;">D:\</SPAN></P><P><SPAN style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Segoe UI', Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #fefefe;"><A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/projects/overview/connect-to-a-folder.htm" title="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/projects/overview/connect-to-a-folder.htm">Connect to a folder—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS for Professionals</A> </SPAN></P><P></P><P>Cheers,</P><P>Todd</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:41:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596920#M26278 ToddBlanchette 2015-06-11T13:41:18Z Re: The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive, https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596921#M26279 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you Todd for the input.</P><P></P><P>For me, I would like to connect to the Root!</P><P></P><P>By the way, why developers don’t tend to make this sort things to be optional? There is a nice place for options and we, as users, would prefer to have all the features\behavior to be optional but not compulsory.</P><P></P><P><IMG alt="Clip_252.jpg" class="image-1 jive-image" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/110376_Clip_252.jpg" style="width: 620px; height: 519px;" /></P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:14:38 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596921#M26279 JamalNUMAN 2015-06-16T08:14:38Z Re: The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive, https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596922#M26280 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This has been logged as a bug....right?</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 05 Jun 2017 17:19:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596922#M26280 ThomasColson 2017-06-05T17:19:18Z Re: The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive, https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596923#M26281 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: black;">Not sure! This has been a big limitation for us to migrate to the Pro. The data structure is weird.</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Jun 2017 21:23:50 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596923#M26281 JamalNUMAN 2017-06-07T21:23:50Z Re: The ArcGIS Pro fails to create a new project in the “Root” partition of Hard Drive, https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596924#M26282 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="color: black;">This is already implemented in 2.3 by drag\drop the D:\ drive into Catalog</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="color: black;"><IMG alt="" class="image-1 jive-image j-img-original" src="https://community.esri.com/legacyfs/online/439717_Clip_75.jpg" /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:01:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/the-arcgis-pro-fails-to-create-a-new-project-in/m-p/596924#M26282 JamalNUMAN 2019-03-18T08:01:54Z