topic Polygon featuers I created yesterday are gone today in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/polygon-featuers-i-created-yesterday-are-gone/m-p/388194#M22250 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yesterday I added 30 polygon features to a shapefile by copying and pasting polygons from another layer.&nbsp; The features are potential sampling frames that were painstakingly selected by hand after evaluating each potential frame for access issues, etc. (a process that took 5-6 hours.&nbsp; I am dead sure I created 30 features yesterday, saved edits obsessively as I was going along, and saved and exited the map document when I was done at the end of the day.&nbsp; When I had finished yesterday, there were 30 polygons in the shapefile.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Today, when I opened the map document, there were only 19 polygons in the layer.&nbsp; When I open the dbf file, I find there are only features in that table, as well. I tried updating the spatial index, etc., but still do not see my missing feature.&nbsp; I'm now looking at an additional 3-4 hours of work to add the missing 11 polygons back in, unless someone has some idea what's going on, and can tell me how to resurrect the polygons?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:35:57 GMT MarkAndersen1 2013-03-15T14:35:57Z Polygon featuers I created yesterday are gone today https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/polygon-featuers-i-created-yesterday-are-gone/m-p/388194#M22250 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Yesterday I added 30 polygon features to a shapefile by copying and pasting polygons from another layer.&nbsp; The features are potential sampling frames that were painstakingly selected by hand after evaluating each potential frame for access issues, etc. (a process that took 5-6 hours.&nbsp; I am dead sure I created 30 features yesterday, saved edits obsessively as I was going along, and saved and exited the map document when I was done at the end of the day.&nbsp; When I had finished yesterday, there were 30 polygons in the shapefile.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Today, when I opened the map document, there were only 19 polygons in the layer.&nbsp; When I open the dbf file, I find there are only features in that table, as well. I tried updating the spatial index, etc., but still do not see my missing feature.&nbsp; I'm now looking at an additional 3-4 hours of work to add the missing 11 polygons back in, unless someone has some idea what's going on, and can tell me how to resurrect the polygons?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:35:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/polygon-featuers-i-created-yesterday-are-gone/m-p/388194#M22250 MarkAndersen1 2013-03-15T14:35:57Z