topic Re: Records vanish while in edit mode??? in Data Management Questions

Records vanish while in edit mode???

GlennG — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:53:45 GMT

ArcGIS 10.3.1, Windows 10, while in edit mode, some records that I just created vanish from the map view and within the attribute table. The record can be selected in the map view by where it was, attribute table shows a record has been selected, but I can't see the record. If I save edits, save map, and reopen, everything is fine. This doesn't happen to all records added and seems to be intermittent. Anyone had this problem before??

Re: Records vanish while in edit mode???

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:58:41 GMT

Not both conditions, but I have seen features vanish of the dataframe when symbology has been applied to a layer using a field and no value is in the field nor a value set for nodata in the symbology for the layer.

If this is the first time you have seen it, it could be a number of things.

your computer needs a reboot
you have some bad geometry
your project is iffy and you should be working in a new one
change your folder location
don't use the same *.gdb that you have used forever
save often
save under a different name
its Friday

Re: Records vanish while in edit mode???

GlennG — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 18:33:56 GMT

I'm curious about the "change your folder location" fix above. Why is that an issue? I put my gdb on my c: drive and the problem hasn't occurred since.

Re: Records vanish while in edit mode???

DarrenWiens2 — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 18:35:25 GMT

I don't suppose you have a definition query on your editing layer, do you?

Re: Records vanish while in edit mode???

GlennG — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:35:29 GMT

Don't know. I'm editing my parcel features within my parcels gdb. The gdb was created by a consultant a few years back. I first started noticing the issue when we upgraded to Windows 10 and ArcGIS 10.3.1 at the same time a few months ago.

Re: Records vanish while in edit mode???

DarrenWiens2 — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:55:56 GMT

Well, I've seen this editing a feature layer with a definition query applied. For example, if you have a definition query of "Feature_Type" = 'Road', and you draw a 'Trail', it will disappear from the map and attribute table. It will still exist in the feature class on disk, though.

Re: Records vanish while in edit mode???

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 19:59:14 GMT

some people store stuff in c:\users.... and it gets stale after a while especially with all the junk it accumulates and some times it helps to move stuff to a new folder in a new location which will be a new location on the hard drive... same things with projects, I frequently save to new names when working with arcmap, it seems to do a cleanse when saving to a new name and/or location... these are just tips I have seen work in some situations.