topic Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers in ArcMap Questions

ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

AlecColarusso — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 15:09:04 GMT

Hello,

My lab offers workshops and we recently updated to 10.8 an error that never really happened to me is the select by location interface loading with no layers despite layers being within the document. A few of the students and I have been having issues with it. the solution requires a reboot of ArcMap before the layers will load again. I didn't know if this issue was a bug with 10.8 - as I used 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, and 10.6 over the past 5 years and never noticed this issue before. My supervisor said it may be an issue with how memory is being used in the program. I figured I should post it somewhere and I will add an image as soon as it happens to me again.

Thank you,

Alec

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

SamirPatel — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:14:33 GMT

Yep... now I see that you had caught this earlier!

I describe the same issue here and indeed I think it is a bug:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcmap-questions/select-by-location-not-showing-possible-target-layers-in-the/m-p/1040562/thread-id/2201

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

DorStiles — Fri, 14 May 2021 21:33:21 GMT

This is definitely a new bug and started happening after i upgraded as well .... I hope they include a fix in the next patch. The tool window does not want to refresh when a new Data Frame is activated and just to add to the info about this bug the 'Select By Location' tool will get stuck on whichever data frame you use the tool in first, so it isn't even necessarily stuck to the first data frame in a given MXD, just whichever one uses the tool first.

The work around I use is of having a 'Staging' Data Frame and swapping out my data into and out of it to use the tool....

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

CaseyRoss — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:40:48 GMT

I teach an ArcGIS in Social Sciences class to University Students and am running into the same bug in ArcMap 10.8.1

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

AntonyWitts — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 13:50:30 GMT

I am having the same problem too. I'm also finding that selections (when i can make them) don't always seem to be taken forward into a report I have which relies on selected features.

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

EstherJensen — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:29:26 GMT

I have the same problem. Is there a solution to this?

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

AlecColarusso — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:38:44 GMT

What I usually have the students do is save ArcMap, completely close all ArcGIS desktop applications on the machine, and then reopen ArcMap; it will resolve itself. It does seem to happen on the same two computers, but I can't seem to figure out why.

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

EstherJensen — Wed, 18 May 2022 13:53:22 GMT

Thanks it worked for me

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

SouleymaneFall — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 22:52:00 GMT

If this happens again, you can just search for the Select Layer By Location tool and use it. It will load all layers.

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

AlecColarusso — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:34:33 GMT

Thank you for your reply, while this is definitely a good (and much faster) work-around. It's not necessarily a solution to the problem with the select by location dialog box.

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

SouleymaneFall — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:53:35 GMT

I agree. Just wanted to suggest an alternative.

Re: ArcMap 10.8 Select By Location not loading layers

RickHollatz — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 18:15:40 GMT

Just wanted to add another comment to this thread. I was having a similar problem with Select By Location. After some unsuccessful efforts to resolve it (e.g. replacing the Normal file) I realized it was specific to one dataset I obtained from an outside source, specifically because that polygon data had negative values in the SHAPE_AREA field. In my case it was easy to just create a new polygon dataset (using Trace), which provided me with a non-corrupt version. Selection tools worked properly after that. In reading another post elsewhere there was a good suggestion that using the Repair Geometry geoprocessing tool may also resolve the problem and be a better alternative for fixing a more complicated dataset since a manual Trace is not a great solution. Just wanted to share that the data may be the cause, rather than a bug in the software.