topic Re: i DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS: Delete Selected Features failed. in ArcGIS Pro Questions

i DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS: Delete Selected Features failed.

ArmandoFreites16 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:43:18 GMT

When I try to delete a feature, appears this message

Delete Selected Features failed.
The selection contains no editable features. - No edits producing database changes were found.

the feature class are in a geodatabase as always

Re: i DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS: Delete Selected Features failed.

Eugene_Adkins — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:50:28 GMT

Are there currently multiple users of the data in the database?

Re: i DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS: Delete Selected Features failed.

ArmandoFreites16 — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:43:09 GMT

No, but it did solve the problem, the feature class was missing a projection. I solved it with "define projection" after so much trying. In any case, the writing should have been more specific about the problem.

But thanks

Re: i DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS: Delete Selected Features failed.

Eugene_Adkins — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:57:40 GMT

Finding answers always helps the rest of the day to feel better 😁

Re: i DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS: Delete Selected Features failed.

tikola — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:26:52 GMT

I have excatly same case and solution was same. My case was CAD based DWG that has been imported to local file geodatabase and though right coordinate numbers it was missing projection definition. So data looked OK on map but was truly missing projection.

The symptom in my case was that in attribute table Delete Features was grayed out but you could do feature deletion in Pro main toolbar with this excact error message.

So conclution here too is that in certain cases where data has no projection information delete features might be grayed out in attribute table and deleting selected features is impossible. And even in local file geodatabase where typically this kind of issues does not exist at all.