topic Re: Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities

GaryMorris2 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 15:18:38 GMT

I recently took a new job and I have walked into a situation where there is no metadata for virtually anything created before I got here. I am trying to add a "Description" in ArcCatalog for a shapefile I received from a contractor that was doing some work before I got here. I do not have the option to add any, I understand that this is a permissions issue however, I do not know how to change the permissions to allow the editing of the "Description" The features within the shapefile are editable.

Re: Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities

DanPatterson — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:07:41 GMT

try making sure the shapefile isn't open in a map or being used perhaps, otherwise check the file properties in Windows

Re: Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities

GaryMorris2 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:22:47 GMT

It isn't opened anywhere, I even tried exporting it and adding it to a new file geodatabase and closing out everything and opening just catalog. It still doesn't give me the option.

Re: Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities

JayantaPoddar — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 16:26:28 GMT

What do you see when you right-click the shapefile > Edit Metadata?

Re: Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities

GaryMorris2 — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 17:33:15 GMT

Re: Changing a shapefiles editing capabilities

Robert_LeClair — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 23:03:10 GMT

Gary - I only saw one internal customer call with this error message and it was resolved by removing the Target for ArcGIS extension from GeoSoft. There's something about XML formats via that extension that causes the issue. Test on a machine without this extension. What is the result?