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Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

GrantHelete1 — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:14:14 GMT

I have been working on a project in ArcGIS Pro 2.1.2 and as of this morning have been unable to save my edits that I have made to data in a map (in map mode, not layout mode). I am able to make the edits, but when I go to save them I get the following error window:

If I try to make additional edits and save them after I receive this notification, the "Save Edits" button becomes grayed out like so:

I have tried to edit several different layers (ensuring that I am only editing one layer at a time), and each time I have received this error. I have also shut down and restarted the program several times and this problem is still occurring. I have even removed the map and added it back in to the project, and the error still occurs each time I try to make edits. This leads me to believe that it is an issue with the project itself, but I am not sure what kind of issue that would be. I have looked around to see if anyone else has had the problem, but have been unable to find any such forum post/Stack Exchange/etc.

The project uses an imported .mxd from ArcGIS 10.3 as the basis for its layout (which was imported when the project was created), and the map I am editing was created from one of the map frames in the layout mode. This is my first project for which I have used ArcGIS Pro (I have previously only used ArcGIS 10.3/10.4), so I apologize if any of my Arc GIS Pro terminology is inaccurate/confusing.

Any help that anyone could provide would be very much appreciated. I am also more than happy to provide any and all additional information that would be helpful.

Thanks!

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

DanPatterson_Retired — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:45:21 GMT

Start a clean project an add one data layer to it. Can you edit and save it? You might want to make a copy of the layer to a new file geodatabase first.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

JeromeHaaland — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:45:45 GMT

Problem is still happening in 2.6

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

Scott_Harris — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 15:57:52 GMT

Hi Jerome,

This could be a data/project specific problem, and would be difficult to troubleshoot on this forum. Please contact Esri Technical Support as they can help narrow down what could be causing the issue.

Thanks,

Scott

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

RuthAslanis — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:51:51 GMT

I am having this problem also. Could this be a bug? Are there limits to how many layers are in default.fgdb? I did save the project after dicarding the edits and reopenned in ArcGIS Pro. It saved once for a few edits and then message reappeared on second batch. Both in small number of edits.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

Anonymous User — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:32:53 GMT

I wanted to bump this thread because I am having this problem (in August 2021) and it's been happening for a few months. Has anyone found any success in troubleshooting the error?

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

SRanseen — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:41:41 GMT

have been having same issue since last arcpro update. I have turned on to where it saves edits every few minutes but very frustrating to have to go back and redo work again and again.

Edit (Jan 2022): since posting this issue has mostly gone away since arcpro had recent updates. I did end up having to fully remake my master layers I was editing because they would no longer edit at any level. After the update and the remake this issue has stopped happening. Don't know why and don't know why my layers corrupted.

I had one of my users also having the same issue in arcmap 10.7 and after video card and computer updates issue stopped occurring for them.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

anna_garrett — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 22:52:44 GMT

I just had this exact same issue and it turned out I'd forgotten I was editing the same line feature class in ArcMap (long story, I have to edit my annotation in ArcMap for the time being since it's not compatible with Pro).

I think when there's no explanation or error code it's probably something like that. Wish there was an error code or a more descriptive message though.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

IBWadmin — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 22:35:48 GMT

I began getting this fail today in AGP 2.9.0, working on a layer from AGOL.
I tried loading the layer in a new project, new map, with the same issue arising.
Do users have any other practical suggestions?

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

m3 — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:00:01 GMT

Same here, 2.9.1

Considering copying the layer then overwriting it, but I have a lot riding on this data, so I'm reluctant to go that option

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

Anonymous User — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:00:53 GMT

Could it potentially be a lock issue? I get the same error, but I tried doing the field attribute updates I needed to do via a field calculate. That did not work but I received the error that it failed because it couldn't acquire a lock. Save edits potentially fails due to lock issues but just doesn't return an error message?

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

m3 — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 23:30:35 GMT

Actually I figured it out, and it's related to that. With a large dataset and field calculator, if you have 'enable undo' turned on, you get this error. If you are willing to just field calculate and throw caution to the wind, it may work for you.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

AB81 — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 07:21:33 GMT

Probably not the best way to do this, but I run into this problem when working with large datasets. When this does happen I save my project and all edits. Close the program reopen the program and project then I can save.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

IBWadmin — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 13:53:49 GMT

Thanks. I noticed that closing and reopening Pro 2.9.2 allows edits to be saved again.

When snapping randomly stops working, closing and reopening the app restores the behavior. Unless anyone has a different fix?

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

MartyRyan — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:14:12 GMT

I am working in ArcGIS Pro 2.9.2 and find that I am not able to save all edits. Some appear to save fine, but others (one area in particular) do not save and I get this error message:

I cannot find any information on this - My data is a "Feature Service Feature Class" and I am signed in to my Enterprise Portal. My data source's url is:

https://gis.sjrwmd.com/hosted/rest/services/Hosted/LULC_2020/FeatureServer

I am not familiar with hosted services, rest services, etc.

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

LHo — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 03:49:27 GMT

Hi All. Has anyone captured Fiddler logs during the time you run into this issue? I'm interested to see if you find any mismatching startEdit -> stopEdit calls. I see the error happens when two startEdit calls are made without a stopEdit call in between them. In Fiddler, ctrl+F 'edit' and select Timeline to inspect the calls.

Re: Save Edits Failed in ArcGIS Pro

FerdieRatum — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:56:41 GMT

I encountered this in an Annotation feature class. After some tinkering, I found that recalculating the Spatial Index (Feature Class Properties: Annotation > Indexes > Spatial Index > Recalculate) solved the problem.

Hope this helps in similar cases.