topic Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Anonymous User — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 03:20:30 GMT

I'm running ArcGIS Pro 2.2.3 and it keeps opening read only projects when I open projects for the first time. If I then close these and re-open it seems fine.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 03:30:59 GMT

… " opening read only projects " ...

Do you mean that you got projects from somewhere, and they open as read-only when you first open them?

Or do you mean that you are creating a new project and it opens as read-only?

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

shan_sarkar — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:03:07 GMT

Kate,

The projects that you are trying to open in arcgis pro 2.2.3 were they made in the same version of arcgis pro?

~Shan

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Anonymous User — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:29:01 GMT

Opening projects that have previously been created

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Anonymous User — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:29:39 GMT

Not necessarily, they can be from different versions. Surely this shouldn't make them open as a read only though still?

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 01:48:23 GMT

It might be the case, so it might be trying to avoid people using 'save' and writing a new version, which they will then try to open on the older version.

See if 'Save' is disabled, forcing the user to choose 'Save As'. If that is the case, the newer version should not be read only.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

PaulLohr — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 10:32:55 GMT

Using ArcGIS Pro version 2.3.1. Same situation here. A project that has been saved can only be opened in read-only mode. I have tried opening the application then opening the file. I have also tried double clicking the aprx file. The result is the same.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

MicheleH1_DNReply — Wed, 15 May 2019 05:19:55 GMT

ArcGIS Pro 2.3.2 - Projects I have created maybe 1/2 and hour ago - no one else is accessing them or editing any of the layers in them I successfully saved the project a number of times and then all of a sudden it is read only and I can't save it. The only thing I can do in order not to lose everything is to save to another project. So very very frustrating. Why is it doing this?

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Scott_Harris — Wed, 15 May 2019 16:46:38 GMT

Hmm.. that's odd behavior. Where is the project saved? On a local drive?

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

MicheleH1_DNReply — Wed, 15 May 2019 20:10:07 GMT

No - on a network drive. I've never had this problem with ArcMap or any other programme. I did think for a while it was because someone else opened the same project file. I've been working on a project with a number of other people recently. But last night it was just me - with a project I had just created so that's not it. I do have a couple of other weird things happening that no-one else in my organisation is experiencing but this has happened to others in my team as well.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

MicheleH1_DNReply — Wed, 15 May 2019 20:14:45 GMT

Huh - I've just noticed - Kate started this thread - she's in my team! Maybe it's something on our network setup interfering with ArcPro....

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Scott_Harris — Wed, 15 May 2019 20:49:17 GMT

My suggestion would be to work with your IT department to find out if firewall or antivirus could be the culprit.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

MicheleH1_DNReply — Wed, 15 May 2019 21:17:36 GMT

Thanks - yeah - Kate and I just discussed doing that!

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Kara_Shindle — Tue, 28 May 2019 19:32:03 GMT

I just started having this issue. Map Projects I created for exporting large Map Series are now opening as Read - Only. I created this project in ArcPro about 2 months ago, and it is now doing this. Any headway?

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

MicheleH1_DNReply — Tue, 28 May 2019 20:27:52 GMT

Unfortunately not. Kate and I have no idea why this is occurring. To be fair we haven't actually done much to look into the problem - actually problems as Kate's and mine are slightly different. I have just been saving as and then opening the new one. Works for a while and then I have to do it again. It will get annoying enough soon to try to look into it. I don't have a lot of hope though - these intermittent problems never seem to have a satisfactory solution...

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Kara_Shindle — Thu, 30 May 2019 14:41:24 GMT

I shutdown my computer for 1 minute and restarted and was able to access my Pro documents. Not a great fix but I didn't want to keep making new documents.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

AurelieShapiro — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 06:39:44 GMT

yeah, I turned it off and on again and it works...

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

KentaOkuyama — Sat, 20 Jul 2019 02:19:20 GMT

I came across the same problem, and it directed me to here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/help/projects/open-a-project.htm. It seems opening the same project within the same directory at the same time causes this issue. Therefore it happens when multiple users try to work on the project within the shared network drive.

FYI: In case you control the project by standalone python in Jupyter notebook with opening the project in ArcGISPro app at the same time, once you close the app and try to open the project in app again, it will happen. After you close all Jupyter windows, you could successfully open the project in ArcGISPro app.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

MichelleAng — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:00:28 GMT

I faced similar issues, opened and closed a file that I've created months ago because it kept opening in Read-Only mode. The solution for me was to restart my laptop and it worked like normal again after that.

Re: ArcGIS Pro opening read only projects even though no other projects open

Kara_Shindle — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:45:38 GMT

Mine appeared to be if Jupyter Notebook was running and accessing the document, this problem would happen if the code failed to run, like it wasn't releasing the lock on the document. I'd have to close down Jupyter & all of it's processes before it'd fix the problem.