topic Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits in ArcGIS Pro Questions

ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

deleted-user-6g41xWiDoeRO — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:32:21 GMT

I imported shapes from one feature class into another last night. Made a bunch of field calculations and saved my edits/project before locking my computer for the night. When I unlocked my computer this morning, Pro (2.2.4) was closed and after I reopened my project none of the edits in my GDB were saved. Has anyone else experienced this?

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:47:42 GMT

have you ruled out the possibility that the featureclass changes were made to the correct featureclass.. You indicate a source file and a destination file, one of the two should have retained the changes, I haven't seen an ArcGIS Pro situations where this hasn't been the case

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

deleted-user-6g41xWiDoeRO — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:52:57 GMT

The destination file did not retain the changes after being saved.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

MichaelVolz — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:00:56 GMT

You left Pro open when you locked your computer for the night?

What is your datasource (e.g, file gdb, SDE database, other)?

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:19:34 GMT

So there were no changes/saves in the origin file then? (I have seen many cases where the 'wrong' file ends up being edited after a copy)

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

MervynLotter — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:39:42 GMT

Perhaps it would be a good idea to check your geoprocessing history to see

whether the edits were logged, and if so, to the same feature class you

expected?

Edits are also recorded in the file metadata. You may want to check these

in Catalog view.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

deleted-user-6g41xWiDoeRO — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:47:51 GMT

Correct.

I'm using the file gdb that was created with the project.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

deleted-user-6g41xWiDoeRO — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:48:08 GMT

That is correct.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

DanPatterson_Retired — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:48:09 GMT

Mervyn... to clarify, people using Pro should check their … Project, Options, Geoprocessing... there are two options where that information is saved, it may not be where they think it is, or should go. It is a setup/default option

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

MichaelVolz — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:03:11 GMT

If you have checked all the suggestions from Dan and Mervyn and it still does not explain this behavior, I would repeat the same steps (maybe fewer edits to save time) before end of business today and maybe for several days to see if you can repeat this behavior of losing saved edits.

Then also try the same editing workflow, only shutdown Pro at night instead of leaving it open to see if the edits are retained the next day. At least this would provide you with a better workflow where you know you need to close out of Pro at night.

Do you not close out of Pro at night because it takes so long to start up in the morning?

I would also definitely create a support incident with ESRI if you can repeat this behavior, as lost data is a serious problem.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

MervynLotter — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:10:46 GMT

Hi Dan

No. I was actually thinking in terms of the geoprocessing history as recorded in the Catalog pane history tab. See my screen-grab. All processing recorded here.

And as an example of the geoprocessing history recorded in the metadata.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

deleted-user-6g41xWiDoeRO — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:35:08 GMT

I checked my geoprocessing results and there's no record of me copying in the data from yesterday or when I repeated the task today.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

deleted-user-6g41xWiDoeRO — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:38:58 GMT

I usually close Pro but wanted to be able to pick up right where I left off when I returned to work this morning. My computer was also going to update when I shut it down. Windows definitely updated last night while the computer was locked so that could explain why Pro wasn't open when I unlocked my computer this morning.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

DarciSmith1 — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 17:29:02 GMT

I've been experiencing something similar. I have been switching between ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro editing the same dataset. I have my data stored in a file geodatabase in file folder. 3 times now, data that I have edited with ArcGIS Pro has mysteriously disappeared. I save my edits and I save my ArcGIS Pro project several times throughout my editing process. I close out ArcGIS Pro and shut down my computer every time I leave work for the night. I am now in the process of documenting my edits and taking screen shots so I can make a ticket for this. Most recently what I experienced was not just edits lost but entire feature classes created within a geodatabase disappearing. I'm not sure this is an ArcGIS Pro problem or maybe a problem with my databases getting overwritten with older versions somehow.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

DanamaeScarboroughMDA — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 17:28:55 GMT

I'm experiencing the same exact issue. I will lose entire days worth of edits. I save both my edits and project constantly, and yet when I return to opening ArcGIS Pro, I will have entire days worth of edits that seem to no longer exist. I can't imagine what I am doing wrong, or what is happening.

Re: ArcGIS Pro not retaining saved edits

Bud — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 03:11:17 GMT