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system crash. all 'saved' edits now missing

KateNolan — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:31:03 GMT

Hi,

I have just completed a lot of edits - adding lines and attributes to a shapefile (using Arcmap 9.3 for desktop)
I have been saving edits all the way but just 9.3 just crashed and when I reopened it none of the line work or the attributes are there!

Is there a back up somewhere that I can retrieve or any ideas why the data did'nt save?

Thanks

Re: system crash. all 'saved' edits now missing

JohnSobetzer — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:59:36 GMT

There are a few possibile explanations for the lost edits that I've seen on the forums from people including: 1) bad geometry, 2) layer locked by another instance of ArcGIS, 3) corrupted project or template, 4) accidentally saving the project not the edits, etc. You might Google on something like ArcGIS edits not saved. Sometimes the edits are there but the symbology or definition query doesn't show them; bringing them into a new project might show them. Another possibility is that they weren't saved to the hard/network drive, which might only happen for sure if you closed editing. Something similar might be happening if you tried to export your shapefile or the attribute table, it could go out without the "saved" edits. I don't know where they are stored, perhaps in a cache or stack somewhere. I've often lost the last few edits while others that had been saved were in fact saved. So I try to remember to close editing every so often. I know of no way to recover truly lost edits.

Re: system crash. all 'saved' edits now missing

KateNolan — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:36:39 GMT

There are a few possibile explanations for the lost edits that I've seen on the forums from people including: 1) bad geometry, 2) layer locked by another instance of ArcGIS, 3) corrupted project or template, 4) accidentally saving the project not the edits, etc. You might Google on something like ArcGIS edits not saved. Sometimes the edits are there but the symbology or definition query doesn't show them; bringing them into a new project might show them. Another possibility is that they weren't saved to the hard/network drive, which might only happen for sure if you closed editing. Something similar might be happening if you tried to export your shapefile or the attribute table, it could go out without the "saved" edits. I don't know where they are stored, perhaps in a cache or stack somewhere. I've often lost the last few edits while others that had been saved were in fact saved. So I try to remember to close editing every so often. I know of no way to recover truly lost edits.

Hi John thanks for the feedback. I have decided that I just had a brain melt and was using the wrong save button - if so, it's not a mistake I'll make again....