topic Re: ArcMap 10 table edits not recording in Data Management Questions

ArcMap 10 table edits not recording

TylerWaring — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:47:46 GMT

Greetings,
Have a stand alone table that I intend to geocode. I loaded the table into a file geodatabase. About 10 of the addresses were not validated and are incorrectly entered with a '#' in the address. To remove these '#'s, I start an editing session and select the coresponding record, place the cursor in the address field, delete the '#' and more on to the next offending record. However, no matter what I do, my updates to not take. I neither want to go through the trouble of calculating each value seperately with the field calculator, nor do I want to write a python script or export to Excell, though thesse methods will all work. Is there some reason I can not update these handful of records manually in an editing session? What gives?
Thanks, Tyler

Re: ArcMap 10 table edits not recording

TylerWaring — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 14:06:18 GMT

Alright, alright... now I know this sounds crazy but the issue has resolved itself. I'll go ahead and tell you what happened. I went ahead and started to calculate the fields one at a time and this seems to have resolved the issue. Now when I manually edit each field seperately, the edits take. I believe that this is some obscure bug that I may have come across while in the process of converting an excell workbook to dbf 5 in access and then converting to file geodatabase in arcmap. If I hadn't seen it with mine own eyes I wouldn't believe it either.
Thanks, Tyler

Re: ArcMap 10 table edits not recording

TylerWaring — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:11:34 GMT

Actually, now it's doing it again. Strange. I'll report back if I can get it to behave normally again.

Thanks, Tyler

Re: ArcMap 10 table edits not recording

TylerWaring — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:19:35 GMT

Again, after calculating on record's field with the field calculator, I was able to then manually update an individual field value for other records. This is really strange. The work around seems to be to use the field calculator for one record to reset the ability to update single attributes for individual records. Go figure.