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ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

FionaWatters — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:45:27 GMT

When I try and pull in some shapefiles I keep getting this error and when I open the properties it says

. However, they open fine in QGIS so are not corrupt. I have checked the coordinate system and have tried exporting a copy in QGIS and then reopening in ArcPro and I have the same issue. What is weird is some shapefiles in the exact same folder open and others do not. So, the file pathway must be ok. It just seems to not be able to find the files. When I try and run them with geoprocessing I get this Error Error: 000229: Cannot Open. Does anyone know what is happening here?

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

DanPatterson — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:45:19 GMT

see if getting them as feature classes in a local geodatabase helps to recover the data

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Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

MichaelVolz — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:02:33 GMT

Do you still have access to ArcMap to see if shape files load in the older app?

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

Robert_LeClair — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 23:13:34 GMT

Sometimes the shapefile gets corrupted. You can run a shapefile checker to fix some issues with the shapefile. The process is here.

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

FionaWatters — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:11:23 GMT

Thanks! I had tried this and It doesn't recognise the shapefile as existing when i try to run it through - I get Error Error: 000229: Cannot Open

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

FionaWatters — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:11:39 GMT

I do not but it loads in QGIS fine!

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

FionaWatters — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:12:27 GMT

Thanks - I tried this and re downloaded the shapefile from the web again and it will not even recognise it as being there

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

DanPatterson — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:06:26 GMT

if you downloaded it from the web, go to the folder that you downloaded it to. There should be at least 3 files with the same name and a *.shp, *.shx and *.dbf. Perhaps the shapefile is downloaded as a *.zip file and it needs to be extracted to its individual components.

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

BarryNorthey — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:49:20 GMT

I downloaded the shapefile from here.

It failed to open in Pro and GP tools failed to acknowledge it. QGIS opened it but failed to export it.

Ran ShapeChecker on it but no luck.

I was able to get a WMS working from the site but not a WFS.

Re: ArcPro will not recognise / load some shapefiles but load some from exactly same folder.

BarryNorthey — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:43:11 GMT

If you are still stuck on this, download the data in GeoJSON format and convert to a fGDB feature class. This can be done in Pro or QGIS. Using the JSON To Features GP tool in Pro sets the Text field lengths to a huge size for reasons unknown to me. QGIS makes the a bunch smaller.