topic Opening tools from the search window in Geoprocessing Questions

Opening tools from the search window

GerradJones — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 09:39:15 GMT

Until recently, I was able to search for a tool and open it from the search window. However, if I search for ANY tool (e.g., clip), I cannot open it from the search window. If I go to the ArcToolbox, I can open all the trees and find the tools and open them from there with no problems. This, of course, takes much longer.

Recently, I deleted all the files in my default geodatabase. The default geodatabase is on my company’s network drive and it was taking up all the allotted space I had. I have been saving all of my “critical” files in a separate folder that wasn’t on the network, so I thought I could just delete everything in the default geodatabase. I am not sure if this has anything to do with it, but before I deleted the files, I had no problems and after deleting the files, it stopped working. I thought this was at least worth mentioning.

Does anyone know what the problem is or how I can fix it?

Thank you very much for your time and help. I greatly appreciate it.

Re: Opening tools from the search window

JenniferMcCall4 — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 13:32:55 GMT

Have you tried renaming your Esri folder in C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming\ESRI? This is my go-to solution when ArcMap or ArcCatalog have strange behaviour.

Re: Opening tools from the search window

JayantaPoddar — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:14:08 GMT

Hi Gerrad,

You should never delete the files within a GDB from Windows Explorer. Always delete the whole GDB, if required.

Close all ArcGIS applications. Delete the Default.gdb and start ArcMap again.

Re: Opening tools from the search window

GerradJones — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:19:22 GMT

Thank you Jennifer! That is a nifty trick. After changing the name, everything worked as before. I will have to remember that in the future.

Re: Opening tools from the search window

GerradJones — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:21:58 GMT

Hi Jayanta,

For some reason, I started having problems with ArcCatalog and I was receiving errors saying that I didn't have permission to delete files or that the files were read only. After 10 minutes of trying to figure it out, I just went to windows explorer and deleted everything form there. That was probably what caused the problem.