https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/rename-a-feature-class-in-fgdb/m-p/1398101#M45028 <P>This may be a very elementary topic, but it appears that simply renaming a feature class within a fgdb in ArcGIS Pro is way slower than through ArcCatalog.&nbsp; Has anyone else experienced this?&nbsp; I came across a geoprocessing tool named "<A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/rename.htm" target="_self">Rename</A>", which takes about a minute to run.&nbsp; This is better than right-clicking and renaming within the catalog pane or view within pro (which takes minutes to process), but not as well as a few seconds within ArcCatalog.&nbsp; Is this the ESRI recommended process for renaming feature classes?&nbsp; What used to be so simple, now seems to be over complicated.</P> Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:35:23 GMT shildebrand 2024-03-19T21:35:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/rename-a-feature-class-in-fgdb/m-p/1398101#M45028 <P>This may be a very elementary topic, but it appears that simply renaming a feature class within a fgdb in ArcGIS Pro is way slower than through ArcCatalog.&nbsp; Has anyone else experienced this?&nbsp; I came across a geoprocessing tool named "<A href="https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/latest/tool-reference/data-management/rename.htm" target="_self">Rename</A>", which takes about a minute to run.&nbsp; This is better than right-clicking and renaming within the catalog pane or view within pro (which takes minutes to process), but not as well as a few seconds within ArcCatalog.&nbsp; Is this the ESRI recommended process for renaming feature classes?&nbsp; What used to be so simple, now seems to be over complicated.</P> Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:35:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/rename-a-feature-class-in-fgdb/m-p/1398101#M45028 shildebrand 2024-03-19T21:35:23Z https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/rename-a-feature-class-in-fgdb/m-p/1398107#M45029 <P>More goes on than just a simple rename than in the days of ArcCatalog... given the web, permissions, multiple users etc etc.&nbsp; Rename... is the way to go, anything else is just a shortcut to it which would account for its increased time given the checks that the shortcut has to make to get to the base tool's code call</P> Tue, 19 Mar 2024 21:49:39 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/rename-a-feature-class-in-fgdb/m-p/1398107#M45029 DanPatterson 2024-03-19T21:49:39Z