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Pasting features into a new layer

JakeStanton — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:41:21 GMT

I have been copying line features out of shapefiles and pasting them into a gdb feature class. It had been working fine, but with the last few shapefiles I've tried to copy and paste, I've run into a wall - I keep getting a message syaing there is "no acceptable target available" and that the "geometry type must match that of the features being pasted." I'm unsure what to do because all my data are in line shapefiles and feature classes and this was working well before.
Any suggestions?

Re: Pasting features into a new layer

JonWebb — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:33:17 GMT

Do you have any definition queries set on either of the layers?

Re: Pasting features into a new layer

KatharineKolb — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:24:07 GMT

Jake, this is a crazy idea, but did you change the visibility of your target layer that you are pasting into? I just had the same problem happen to me. The only thing that changed was that I had turned off the target layer's visibility in the Table of Contents. As soon as I turned the visibility back on, the new features pasted just fine.

Re: Pasting features into a new layer

ChrisWalker5 — Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:54:00 GMT

I was having this same issue and I also resolved it by turning on the target layer I was trying to paste in.

Re: Pasting features into a new layer

MatthewMalone — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 17:05:18 GMT

Although the last post in this thread was 2013, I just ran into this issue TODAY in April 2021 using 10.5.1. Received the error until I turned on the layer in the TOC. Crazy that it wouldn't work without the layer being physically visible (I was just using the Attribute Tables).

Re: Pasting features into a new layer

GelcysWilliams — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:23:18 GMT

Same here!! And I'm using 10.7.1

Re: Pasting features into a new layer

dhowes1 — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 01:08:13 GMT

And in 10.8.1