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MXD open empty

ModyBuchbinder — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:44:06 GMT

Hello

We have a problem with saving MXD's

We create a MXD based on local FGDB layers. There are some group layers in it.

We save it to the desktop without any error messages.

We close ArcMap and reopen with the saved MXD. Only the group layers exist. All other layers are gone.

The layers does not have red exclamation mark, they are just not in the mxd.

Any idea?

Thanks

Mody

Re: MXD open empty

JamesPierce — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:04:37 GMT

What version of the software, what is the license type and where locally are the FGDB layers stored?

Re: MXD open empty

ModyBuchbinder — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:12:51 GMT

ArcGIS Standard 10.2

The data was taken from C:\Program Files (x86)\ArcGIS\Desktop10.2\TemplateData\TemplateData.gdb

Re: MXD open empty

AsrujitSengupta — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:18:39 GMT

What if you just create the MXD with the data from the FGDB only. No Group Layers. Same behaviour?

Also is this happening on multiple machines?

Re: MXD open empty

DanPatterson_Retired — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:24:33 GMT

Some of my students have had trouble saving it to the 'desktop' as an issue in some of my classes. Save it to a folder. The desktop is really not a good place to save anything

Re: MXD open empty

ModyBuchbinder — Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:37:23 GMT

Thanks all.

We tried saving to C:/temp - same results.

If the MXD have no groups it just opened empty.

The fact that the grouped saved shows that somthing did saved...

Thanks again

Mody

Re: MXD open empty

enesarslan — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 06:49:29 GMT

I have too same problem with 10.4 , I had saved something issue . mxd but after I was opened ; I could see only .xls files . Those are my extencion. Help us please

Re: MXD open empty

ChelseaRozek — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:31:18 GMT

Did anyone find a solution to this? Our layers are disappearing from a 10.6.1 .mxd.

Re: MXD open empty

MichaelVolz — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:35:09 GMT

Is your mxd setup like the OP where you have your layers in a local (c-drive) file gdb?

If not, what kind of data sources are you using?

Re: MXD open empty

ChelseaRozek — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 14:51:27 GMT

Hi Michael, the user had layers from both our enterprise geodatabase (sql) and a file gdb on a network drive. I renamed his normal.mxt so we'd get a fresh one and tried repairing his installation. Waiting to hear back if the issue persists, but was hoping someone had a previously successful solution.

Re: MXD open empty

AlexandraDubovis2 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 18:40:51 GMT

Did you ever find the solution? one of our analyst just had the same issue. When I open file after save as (tried all possible directories, removing some data..... before I closed .mxd) it is still opened empty map, no layers. This is a first time ever happened to me in a 20 years of my GIS experience. I think some of the data was corrupted. Any help will be appreciated.

Re: MXD open empty

ChelseaRozek — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:16:44 GMT

Hi Alexandra, I'm not sure what fixed it, but looking at my notes, some of the things I tried were repairing the user's installation of ArcMap, deleting the normal.mxt, and upgrading him to the latest version of ArcMap. Eventually he reported that it was working fine. Hope one of those helps you!

Re: MXD open empty

AlexandraDubovis2 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:18:56 GMT

Thank you!

Re: MXD open empty

Anonymous User — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 03:33:43 GMT

Any luck there? Got a user who has files from dropbox. Same issue