topic Re: File Geodatabase - Feature will not delete in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/file-geodatabase-feature-will-not-delete/m-p/222031#M12604 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Unfortunately it is not a schema lock issue. I had to abondon the fgdb by using export as the copy/paste functions would give me an error message as well even though I was not selecting the corrupt feature class.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:12:32 GMT JimW1 2011-03-08T16:12:32Z File Geodatabase - Feature will not delete https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/file-geodatabase-feature-will-not-delete/m-p/222030#M12603 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Let me start with I know it's my own fault.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was having some exporting issues with a joined feature class in a file geodatabase. My joined layer would not export giving me some error (that I did not bother recording). My workaround was to just export the join as the default Export_Output and it worked great. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I was being lazy and opened the 'Add Data' dialogue and tried to rename Export_Output to something more meaningful. I realize this is not the way to do this but it works so quickly compared to toolbox or all the locked files junk between ArcCatalog and ArcMap. I have never had a problem doing this with shapefiles or personal geodatabase records. Yet this layer gave me an error when attempting the rename.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I closed ArcMap, opened ArcCatalog and now the Export_Output layer shows as a table with my attempt at a rename as a spatial feature 0b in size. I foolishly deleted the Export_Output table and now the spatial layer will not delete. I get a FDO error -2147024894.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any ideas?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I'm going to abandon this geodatabase and make a new one. </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>(The more I use file geodatabases the less I like them. I'll stick to personal or SDE)</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:40:52 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/file-geodatabase-feature-will-not-delete/m-p/222030#M12603 JimW1 2011-03-04T14:40:52Z Re: File Geodatabase - Feature will not delete https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/file-geodatabase-feature-will-not-delete/m-p/222031#M12604 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Unfortunately it is not a schema lock issue. I had to abondon the fgdb by using export as the copy/paste functions would give me an error message as well even though I was not selecting the corrupt feature class.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:12:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/file-geodatabase-feature-will-not-delete/m-p/222031#M12604 JimW1 2011-03-08T16:12:32Z