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Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:40:53 GMT

Hello,

I am having an issue with ARCGIS pro. I have over 100 arcgis files saved onto our server and have been struggling with an issue I cannot figure out. After opening up a ArcGIS Pro file within 1-10 minutes, every time I draw a new shape line onto the map, the line disappears after a few seconds or minutes. This usually happens after I "save edits". Sometimes the line is visible, but I am unable to click and highlight the shape and eventually it will disappear. For existing shapes already on the map, whenever I edit the vertices or attributes, the edits are reverted back to its previous state. In order to stop this from happening, I would have to close and reopen ArcGIS Pro so that I can create new or edit the shape. Everything will be fine, but after a minutes or so the issue would happen again. I noticed that it barely happens with a fresh new map, but after a while adding multiple growing amounts of drawings, the issue happens quite often.

Does anyone know what issue this is and how can I fix it?

Update. I have added a video below showing the issue.

https://youtu.be/Z2IzXmcnRSQ

Notce, I try to change 28.00 to 29.00 by editing the attributes, but after being saved, it reverts back to 28.00. Secondly, when I try adding a few lines, the lines disappear and evidently shows on the attributes tables. Lastly, when I try to delete the line, it returns after I save.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

jcarlson — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:43:37 GMT

What kind of "files" are they? If they don't support concurrent edits, could it be that other users are accessing the data at the same time?

It also sounds like it could be related to the spatial index. Have you tried rebuilding the indices for the layers?

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JayantaPoddar — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 13:52:38 GMT

What version of ArcGIS Pro are you using?

Where is the data stored (Locally/Network | FGDB/Shapefile/Enterprise GDB)?

How are you "always" saving the edits (Using Keyboard or the the GUI)

You Should always save your edits using the Save Edits icon.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

MatthewDriscoll — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:16:51 GMT

Try clearing your cache. Project Tab -> Options -> Display -> Local cache -> Clear cache. Also, as others have asked, what is you current version of Pro? I found this happened a lot in the earlier versions.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:26:57 GMT

I am working on a ArcGIS Project File and using SHP files.

I am unfamiliar with these steps. Can you help me?

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:29:28 GMT

I am using ArcGIS Pro 2.7.1,but this has been happening with updates for that.

This is a local sever.

I save using both.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:34:10 GMT

I will give this a shot.

I will update to 2.7.2 however I am very certain it will not help because I have updated twice previously and it did not fix the issue.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JayantaPoddar — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:37:48 GMT

If you use CTRL+S, it saves your Project (Not the edits). Try using the Save Edits icon verytime you want to save the edits. Let us know if the issue still persists.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:52:01 GMT

I have tried saving normally by clicking the save icon and did not do the trick 😶

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JoeBorgione — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 16:08:53 GMT

My first reaction is to migrate your shapefiles into a geodatabase format, either a local file geodatabase or enterprise geodatabase.

As far as your newly added features not displaying, it sounds to me like you may have a definition query enabled such that when you add a new feature, the attribute that drives that definition query is not populated correctly.

See: https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/help/mapping/layer-properties/definition-query.htm

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:37:29 GMT

I will give this a try.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:38:03 GMT

Sorry. None of these has helped.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

jcarlson — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 17:54:51 GMT

Open up the layer properties, go to Indexes, click Recalculate. No guarantees it will work, but it's another thing to try.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:24:31 GMT

So in case this may help diagnose the issues, I noticed when I copy one ArcGIS file from the server to my desktop I do not have the same issue after it has been opened for a while. I am not sure whether the file path has anything to do with it.

I also comparing to another colleagues computer and mimicked the exact same preferences from the options, but I am still have the same issue. The other computer does not have that issue

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

George_Thompson — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:24:33 GMT

I would not recommend editing shape files over a local network. There are quite a few items that could cause that behavior you are experiencing.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:27:36 GMT

I have never had this issue saving on a server before but this started around December of last year. I have been using this for about 3 years with no related issues until for the last 4 months.. I have two other co-workers who uses the server but are not experiencing what I have

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

George_Thompson — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:39:14 GMT

It is hard to say why this is happening to you and not others. Could be network timeouts, server / network hiccups, etc. There are lots of "non-GIS" components between your client and the data.

I have seen all of these impact specific users and not others in the same office.

Another test is to see if another user logs in to your workstation, uses ArcGIS Pro to edit the same shape files over the network and see if they get the same behavior. That would let you know if it is machine / client related, potentially user profile related, etc.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:56:26 GMT

Thank you, but no luck on this one.

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

JuddStattine — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:37:55 GMT

Hello all,

I have tried and exhausted everything on my part. I even tried to reinstall ArcGIS Pro, but it did not solve the issue. I linked below a video on YouTube of what is happening. Please let me know if you know what could be the problem.

https://youtu.be/Z2IzXmcnRSQ

Re: Polygon lines and attributes disappearing after editing or drawing.

MichaelFenwick — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 06:09:01 GMT

Yes I had this problem, are you working in a layer that you have previously copied?

If so, your edit's may be showing up in your original layer, even though you are 'creating features' in your copied layer.

There is some weird link happening, I haven't figured out how to separate the copied layer from the original so I can edit the 'copied' layer. It may have something to do with how I copied it in the first place (which was probably just a ctrl-C / ctrl-V).

If you are not working in a copied layer, are you working in a copied map / project...maybe something do to with copying...