topic Re: ArcGIS adding drive letter in Data Management Questions

ArcGIS adding drive letter

DirkPeterson3 — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 21:52:12 GMT

Has anyone else had ArcGIS 10.4 add a drive letter when opening an mxd. The correct path is something like \P\GIS_Data\ND.gdb, and it got changed to \P\j\GIS_Data\ND.gdb. It doesn't happen often enough to really be a problem, but when it does happen its frustrating.

Re: ArcGIS adding drive letter

DanPatterson_Retired — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 01:07:55 GMT

This isn't a drive on a local machine by the looks of it. What environment are you working in? It may be the source of the issue.

Re: ArcGIS adding drive letter

AdrianWelsh — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 17:23:17 GMT

Dirk,

Have you had this issue on other versions of ArcGIS (like 10.3.1, etc.)? Or is this 'new' to 10.4?

Re: ArcGIS adding drive letter

RebeccaStrauch__GISP — Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:59:08 GMT

If "P" is a server/machine name,try seeing if it likes \\P\....

If it is a relative location from the current location, may it would like .\P\.... (notice dot slash at beginning)

Otherwise, a snapshot of the resources for the mxd woudl be helpful. May in ArcCatalog (with he ,mxd closed) if you right-click on the mxd it has an option to "change datasources". If you use that (can cancel without changing anything) you will see how the .mxd is referencing the data. My give you some clues on the issue.