topic Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping

MitchHolley1 — Tue, 01 May 2018 20:01:09 GMT

Has anyone else experienced accidentally dragging and dropping a shapefile on top of another shapefile (or the same shapefile) and having it be deleted? We have currently been experimenting with ArcGIS Pro 2.1.2 and this has been replicated throughout our organization. See error message below.

Re: Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 01 May 2018 22:13:03 GMT

It looks like it is preventing you from doing that? If the file is loaded into Pro, then it is in use and it shouldn't be able to be deleted/replaced

Re: Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping

MitchHolley1 — Wed, 02 May 2018 12:37:46 GMT

We're in the process of moving from ArcGIS Desktop 10.4 to ArcGIS Pro, so the files were created with 10.4. The message above will pop up and then we'll refresh the directory and the shapefile will be gone.

Re: Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping

DanPatterson_Retired — Wed, 02 May 2018 14:19:09 GMT

As in gone... not even bits in the recycling bin? Can't locate parts on disk?

Re: Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping

MitchHolley1 — Wed, 02 May 2018 14:46:01 GMT

Nope, not that I can find. Could you try to replicate the error on some dummy data?

Re: Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping

KoryKramer — Wed, 02 May 2018 18:13:16 GMT

Thanks for reporting this Mitch Holley Firstly, I’d like to apologize that you’re experiencing this issue. We have reproduced the issue on Pro 2.1.2 internally.

We take data corruption issues very seriously, we’re pursuing a patch for Pro 2.1.x. and will share additional status information as available.

Thanks again.

Re: Shapefiles being deleted after dragging & dropping

KoryKramer — Tue, 22 May 2018 13:17:22 GMT

This issue is fixed in the 2.1.3 patch: Release notes for ArcGIS Pro 2.1—ArcGIS Pro | ArcGIS Desktop